Government paper calls for 40GW of nuclear by 2050

Leaked government analysis reveals UK demand for new nuclear power plants

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/reforms-in-funding-planned-to-meet-demand-for-nuclear-power-plants-j3n0mln0l

Totally unnecessary
Electricity is already solved by what we have, what is under construction, and the 30GW of offshore wind we have committed to

New nuclear simply isn't necessary nor is tidal or mass PV
Not unless electricity demand booms

However heat reactors could be useful
85% of UK homes are heated by natural gas
Could be done by district heating via nuclear heat reactors
Would mean much lower electricity demand than if you tried to install 40 million heat pumps (at a cost of some £400 billion and they only last about 15-20 years. While nuclear reactor will last 60-100 years). The reactors can guarantee output in the winter. Wind farms cannot so when the wind isn't blowing you'd have to fire up gas fired stations to power the heat pumps

UK should forget nuclear power stations
But investigate nuclear heat stations
There is also no competition with solar or wind
Let solar and wind solve electricity and nuclear solve heating