General election: Plaid Cymru would only back new nuclear at existing sites

Back in 2018 Leanne Wood, in a failed bid to hold on to her leadership, said the party had adopted a “compromise” which had “pitched people with concerns about the language and environment against each other.”

Mr ap Iorwerth told the Question Time special there were “generations of experience in nuclear in two parts of Wales.

“We don’t think there should be anywhere beyond those two places where we develop nuclear”.

He said there was a “lack of honesty here” and that any nuclear development “was decades away”.

Asked if Plaid’s policy was honest when the party opposes nuclear power except when it is potentially useful to the party, he replied: “That’s as honest as you could possibly wish us to be – lets have them here and not elsewhere.”

Pressed on whether he was for or against nuclear power stations, he added: “In the places where they are now? Yeah.

“I’ve worked very very hard to get Wylfa developed on Ynys Môn.

“But… we only pursue those interests if they work for our communities. We don’t pursue them for their own sake.

“We look A, at the green potential of nuclear generation but [also] B, can we make it work economically for us and mitigate against the challenges of building any project like that in a largely rural area.”