The U.S. and Britain will sign an agreement to make it quicker for companies in both countries to build nuclear power stations when U.S. President Donald Trump visits this week, according to the U.K. government.
The nuclear partnership is one of several economic deals that Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration intends to announce in an effort to keep Trump’s visit from descending into diplomatic and political difficulty. The U.S. president arrives in Britain on Tuesday, takes in a day of pageantry with King Charles III on Wednesday and meets Starmer on Thursday.
Both countries will use each other’s safety assessments of reactor designs to fast-track their own checks under the new agreement. That should speed up the licensing time for nuclear projects to two years from three or four years, the U.K. government said in a news release Sunday.
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