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9 December 2009
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Nuclear wins £8m upgrade
The government has announced a package of support for the civil nuclear industry, including a multi-million pound upgrade of nuclear laboratories.
Business secretary Lord Mandelson said the measures, which include a new research centre in Sheffield, would provide “real help”.
He announced an additional £8 million to upgrade nuclear laboratories at Manchester University’s Dalton Nuclear Institute as well as the creation of a “nuclear low-carbon economic area” in the North West and Yorkshire.
A factory to make components for the civil nuclear industry planned by Rolls-Royce will be based in South Yorkshire, he said. “The civil nuclear sector is one of the key low-carbon industries where the UK has the potential for job creation and economic growth. This is about investing in our future – a greener, smarter, more skilled, more balanced British economy.”
The UK’s nuclear programme is expected to create more than 4,500 engineering jobs over the next 25 years and add more than £1 billion a year to the industry.
Dougie Rooney, national officer of the union Unite, who praised the package,
said: “Up to 10,000 skilled UK manufacturing jobs can be created in the engineering supply chain for the next generation of nuclear power stations.”
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