The UK is one of the few European countries not to have opted to phase out nuclear power generation. Until 2006, the country did not emphasize the construction of new nuclear power plans. The review of the energy policy reversed the government’s opposition to building new nuclear capacity. After the vote for Brexit in mid-2016, the BEIS was entrusted with formulating energy policies including that nuclear energy.

In the Ten Point Plan launched in November 2020, the government set a priority to deliver new and advanced nuclear power and has committed to arriving at an investment decision on at least one large-scale nuclear power station during the parliament ending by December 2024. The country has reconfirmed the status of nuclear as clean energy.