The UK is expected to accrue enough waste to fill four Wembley Stadiums Jonathan Leake is the Telegraph's Energy Editor. He ...

Nuclear power station Hinkley Point A was switched off in 2000 after 35 years in operation. Today, the site, near Bridgwater in Somerset, is still being decommissioned, a process that will take at ...

Work to begin building a new nuclear power station that will bring 8,000 new jobs has been approved, the UK government has announced. Ministers have chosen Wylfa on Anglesey as the site after signing ...

Sellafield in England is one of Europe’s largest and most complex nuclear power development sites, which is now focused on safely managing and storing nuclear waste and cleaning up contaminated ...

Faced with a gap in reliable and low-emission power supply in the early 2030s, the UK could extend by 20 years the life of the Sizewell B nuclear power station, the only nuclear plant in the country ...

The government aims to quadruple nuclear capacity by 2050, taking it to 24 gigawatts (GW), about a quarter of projected UK annual electricity demand. This year, No. 10 has made a flurry of ...