Sept. 24—According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, “Construction of new nuclear power plants to be accelerated,” and that “British plan a billion-dollar offensive for mini nuclear power plants.”

Shortly before the start of U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Britain last week, the United Kingdom and the United States quietly concluded a nuclear energy agreement aimed at accelerating the construction of new reactors. British Labour Party Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke of a “golden age of nuclear energy.” He said that both countries would thus be at the forefront of innovation and investment. Except for Russia, however, there are no mini-nuclear-power reactors, so there is still a lot of work to do.

The American-British agreement stipulates that both sides can use each other’s safety assessments for reactor designs. This is intended to speed up their own reviews. It will reduce the approval time for nuclear power projects from three or four years to two years, according to London. Unlike the Social Democrats in Germany, who are sticking to the German nuclear phase-out, Britain’s Labour Party considers nuclear power as a technology of the future. “The expansion of nuclear energy is central to the British government’s mission to become a superpower in clean energy,” Starmer’s government emphasizes. 

The British Royal family and its operatives have been at the center of organizing a global anti-nuclear movement for more than half a century, dating back to the days Lord Bertrand Russell and his movement that conflated nuclear weapons with nuclear bombs. The Brits therefore tried to shut down nuclear energy as a power source for everyone else, as part of its drive for global depopulation and limited energy. Now, with an openly pro-nuclear, anti-global warming Trump administration, the Brits are moving to "play along," to control consequences.