Dear Prime Minister and Chancellor,

Please accept ALL of the recommendations of the Nuclear Regulatory Review 2025. Families are suffering under sky-high energy bills. We need new nuclear power urgently to bring household bills down and support British jobs with lower industrial electricity prices.

Energy costs are too high and they are crippling Britain's economy, making it more difficult to start, continue or grow businesses in this country. Britain needs more and more electricity to meet this demand and achieve energy independence. That means we urgently need vastly more nuclear power. It is the most reliable and scalable form of clean energy Britain can get.

Currently, the UK is the most expensive place to build a nuclear power station on the planet, driven by our broken regulatory system, as the Review highlights. To take just one example: Hinkley Point C's price skyrocketed from £18 billion to £46 billion, and it will take 19 years to build, driven by the more than 7,000 design changes imposed by regulators mid-build, as well as legal challenges and other regulatory obstacles. Our system prioritises £100 million bat tunnels and £700 million fish discos above lowering energy bills for British businesses and households.

The Nuclear Regulatory Review 2025 has given recommendations to cut years off build times and billions off costs without compromising safety, including:

• Creating a Single 'Commission for Nuclear Regulation' to replace the paralysis caused by multiple regulators making conflicting demands.

• Defining 'Tolerability of Risk' so that costs of rule-making are not grossly disproportionate to risks, ending the current system that ratchets up infinite cost increases without any meaningful safety benefit.

• Introducing a 'Nature Fund' for strategic nature recovery that replaces years of habitat surveys that delay construction.

• When a reactor design has been approved, stop assessing the same design as though it is new on subsequent sites, enabling fleets of reactors to be built.

• Stopping frivolous judicial reviews and preventing objectors from making multiple challenges, and allowing construction to continue while they are pending.
  
  

Please adopt all 47 of the review's recommendations in full. Time is running out to lower the cost of living and save British industry.
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Signed,

• Matt Clifford, cofounder / Chair of Entrepreneurs First

• Harry Stebbings, Founder 20VC

• Marc Warner, CEO and co-founder Faculty

• Harriet Green, Founding Partner, Basis

• Alex Macdonald, Co-founder & CEO Sequel

• Ben Guerin, Co-founder of Topham Guerin

• Alan Chang, Founder Of Fuse Energy

• Dr Walter Goodwin, CEO of Fractile

• Liv Boeree, Host of Win-Win Podcast, Co-Founder of Raising for Effective Giving

• Ari Helgason, Co-founder and General Partner, Transition VC

• Philip Salter, Founder of The Entrepreneurs Network

• Ali Afshar, CEO and Co-Founder of Mytos (YC S18)

• Adam Hunt, Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow, University of Cambridge; Chair, Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health

• Henry de Zoete, former AI Advisor to the PM and co-founder of Look After My Bills (YC W18)

• Will Hodson, Co-founder of Look After My Bills (YC W18) and Energy Campaigner

• Dr Lawrence Newport, Director and Co-Founder of Looking for Growth (LFG)

• Giselle Gamble, Founder and Entrepreneur

• Sam Bowman, Stripe

• Rebecca Wray, Co-host of LFG Podcast, Advisor Engagement Analyst at Form1 Partners

• Charlotte Pickles, Director of Re:State

• James Gleave, Director of Mobility Lab

• Philip Kelvin, Co-Founder Tranch (YC S22), Independent Councillor City of London

• George Wade, CCO and Co-Founder of Zevero

• Mandeep Singh, Founder and former CEO of Trouva and Angel Investor

• David Sully, CEO and Co-Founder of Advai

• Andrei Muntean, Software Engineer, Google

• Miles Covers, Co-founder of Remedy

• Julian von Nehammer, Revenue Leader

• Sam Richards, CEO of Britain Remade

• Eamonn Ives, Co-Founder, Liberal Digest; Research Director, The Entrepreneurs Network

• Alex Marantelos, Co-founder and CEO of Intryc (YC S24)

• Thomas Clarke, Lead for AI Safety Faculty

• Jamie Rumbelow, Tech Lead, Tools for Humanity; Founder, Tract

• Ben Johnson, Partner, Founding Team at Vitruvian Partners & TechNation Advisory Panel (2017-23)

• Thomas Spencer, IPGL Limited

• Chris Phippen, Director, Thinking Connected

• Ella Kahn, MD at Apple Tree Literary

• James Gozney, CEO & Founder, Aslan

• Vittoria Braggion, Senior SDR, EngageTech

• James Dacombe, Founder of Flux and CoMind

• Jeremy Hindle, Founder of Custodian & Cloudline. Venture Partner at Founders Capital

• Ken Hendricks, Cofounder & CEO of Basepilot

• Phelim Bradley, founder & CEO, Prolific

• Edward Druce, Former No.10 Special Advisor

• Jon Williams, Founder and CEO, Allied

• Lewis Gardner, Founder of Gamcap

• Andrew Seddon, Founder and CEO, CircuitHub

• Rory McMeekin, Co-founder of Kenobi.ai

• Christopher Mjelde, Co-founder of Kenobi.ai

• Henry Palmer, Founder Lightridge VC

• Chris Williams, Founder of Tiggo Care

• Nirmesh Patel, Former Co-founder CCG.ai, Partner at Amino Collective

• Christopher Kong, Co-Founder & CEO of Sarah AI (YC W26)

• David Mlcoch, Co-founder & CEO of Asteroid

• Ben Ball, Founding Head of Product, Allied

• Mann Virdee, Senior Researcher, The Entrepreneurs Network; Adjunct Fellow, Council on Geostrategy

• Maxwell Marlow, Director of Research at the YIMBY Initiative, and Director of Public Affairs at the Adam Smith Institute

• Max Buchan, Founder & CEO, Valarian

• Jof Arnold, Founder & CTO, Enginira

• Marc Harris, Labour YIMBY

• Mark McVitie, Labour Growth Group

• Anguel Hristozov, Founder & CTO, Clidey

• Will Mason, Co-founder & CEO, Infact

• Novo Constare, Founder & CEO, Indeed Flex.

• Jakub Langr, Co-Founder & CTO, Context Lane

• Kaysan Nikkhah, Investor