Power Generation at Dungeness
Dungeness is a major success story in the region, a significant clean energy employer with a high number of relatively well-paid jobs. A recent proposal is to introduce innovative and safe SMR (small modular reactors) to the site. FHDC (dominated by Greens) rejected the proposal to back SMRs – amending it to backing renewable energy.
Reform UK policy:
We are fully in favour of nuclear energy generation at Dungeness and support the development of the Rolls-Royce SMRs at Dungeness. Reliance on wind and solar sources of renewable energy in the pursuit of a futile net-zero objective is economically ruinous (especially for people on low incomes) and totally irresponsible for the countless days when the wind does not blow and the sun is nowhere to be seen. Clean and safe sources of nuclear energy, exploiting cutting-edge British technology, has to be a major component of a coherent energy strategy and Dungeness should definitely be part of that.