Plans to build a nuclear power plant in Wales have taken an important step forward with the announcement of a delivery team for the £10 billion project. Menter Newydd is a joint venture between Hitachi Nuclear Energy Europe, Bechtel, and JGC Corporation (UK), and will be responsible for the construction of Wylfa Newydd in Anglesey, Wales, overseen by Horizon Nuclear Power .

More info

World Future Energy Summit 2027 (WFES 2027)

Horizon aims to provide 5.4 GW of new nuclear capacity in the UK across two sites, Wylfa Newydd and Oldbury in Gloucestershire, deploying Hitachi-GE Advanced Boiling Water Reactors. It expects the first unit at Wylfa to be operating in the first half of the 2020s.