The Government is going further than the Taskforce recommended. Rather than creating a pathway limited to light water reactors, it will work with ONR to bring forward alternatives to the Semi-Urban Population Density Criterion for all classes of reactor, targeted within 12 months. This broadens the scope significantly beyond the original recommendation, which focused on amending EN-7 for LWRs. The expanded approach should benefit advanced reactor developers who might otherwise have faced continued siting constraints under the original 1967 methodology.
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