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Viscount Hanworth (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 January 2025

Debate

Long-duration Energy Storage (Science and Technology Committee Report)

Contribution

Please let me encapsulate this final point. The time is advisory, not mandatory. I have a major point to make. The small size of the reactors would be an advantage in this connection in comparison to the so-called small modular reactors which typically have a power output of 300 megawatts, which is more than an industrial user might require. Batteries of advanced modular reactors could be used to create large electricity-generating power stations. A sad fact to which I must testify is that Britain is losing its projects for developing such reactors—they are closing though lack of funds or finding sponsors in other countries.

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