Dipali Raniga, senior energy and environment policy adviser at the EEF, made a statement on the recent House of Lords Science & Technology Committee report on nuclear research and technology.
She said: “This report rightly recognises the need for the Government to set out a decisive future for the civil nuclear industry post-election, and recognises the role that nuclear research and technology can play in the
UK in the coming years and decades.
“There are already opportunities available such as developing a UK Small Modular Reactors programme which, if designed well and delivered expeditiously, could deliver across the ‘Industrial Strategy Pillars’ as set out in the Green Paper earlier this year.
“It would also contribute to delivering cost-competitive low-carbon energy, together with UK industrial opportunities in the supply chain, skills development and university research in the energy sector and beyond.”