The deal aims to drive cleaner economic growth, promote new opportunities in the sector and develop the technology and skills needed to maintain the UK’s position as a nuclear energy leader.
The industry has vowed to reduce the cost of new nuclear build projects by 30% before 2030 and cut the cost of decommissioning old nuclear sites by 20% by this time.
Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said the deal includes a £32 million boost from government and businesses to kick-start a new advanced manufacturing programme, as well as £86 million for strengthening the national fusion technology platform at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Science Centre in Culham, Oxfordshire
.The government also committed to increasing the proportion of women working in the sector from 22% to 40% by 2030 and said it would help smaller companies access higher value contracts and new markets.
It will offer around £44 million for research and development funding to support the development of advanced modular reactors and launch a new review to look at ways to accelerate the clean-up of old nuclear sites.
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