Originally Posted by Chris

Planning enquiry rules have been changed so the alleged fundamental 'wrongness' of a thing can no longer be submitted as an objection. That makes it more difficult for Greenpeace and their like to hold these sorts of things up for years.

Additionally, most if not all of these are at or adjacent to existing nuclear power stations, which takes care of a lot of other potential objections such as loss of amenity, traffic increase etc.

On the other hand, they will have to be built, maintained and dismantled entirely by the private sector. There's no Government money. So there's no guarantee that any of the eight proposed sites will get a new power station.