Thousands of jobs in our area depend on the nuclear industry. We are working with the Government and industry to bring the next generation of new nuclear to Copeland.
Trudy has hosted the launch of a new company formed to bring new nuclear power to the constituency.
Solway Community Power Company Ltd has been created to bring Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) to land adjacent to the Sellafield site.
Trudy hosted the launch of the company – which is chai
Trudy has welcomed today’s publication of the Nuclear Industry Association’s (NIA) annual Jobs Map, which reveals employment in the industry has grown to its highest levels in five years.
The publication reveals the civil nuclear currently employs 64,509 people across the UK, including 14,873 in th
Trudy has joined senior representatives from Rolls-Royce SMR, the UK’s domestic nuclear energy champion, on a tour of the land to the south of Sellafield site.
The visit was part of work to identify opportunities for Small Modular Reactor (SMR) power plants – each capable of producing 470MW of elec
Trudy has hailed the Government’s new energy strategy as a “massive step forward for the nuclear industry”.
The Government today published its British Energy Security Strategy, which signifies a significant acceleration of nuclear, with an ambition of up to 24GW by 2050 to come from this safe, clea
Trudy has welcomed the announcement that Rolls Royce SMR has entered the regulatory assessment process.
Trudy has campaigned for five years for the introduction of small modular reactors (SMRs) – and to have them located in Copeland.
Today’s announcement that Rolls Royce SMR’s nuclear power plant
Trudy has welcomed the announcement that Rolls Royce SMR has secured funding to develop small nuclear reactors – and will continue to lobby for Copeland to be the location of this new development.
Rolls Royce SMR announced today (Tuesday) that it will invest £195 million of private funding across t
Trudy has welcomed progress towards the introduction of a new financing model for new large-scale nuclear power projects.
The Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill, proposed by Greg Hands, Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, had its second reading in Parliament yesterday (Wednesday).
Trudy has welcomed the announcement that the Moorside site has been shortlisted as a potential host of the UK’s first prototype nuclear fusion power plant.
The site on land next to Sellafield has been named as one of five locations nationally under consideration to locate the STEP (Spherical Tokama
Trudy has responded to a ‘call for evidence’ consultation into the potential of High Temperature Gas Reactors (HTGRs).
In her response, Trudy supports the Government’s preference to explore the potential of HTGRs, and makes the case for Copeland being a suitable location for the technology.
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Trudy Harrison and colleagues have made a compelling case for the borough to be the location of the first small modular reactors (SMR) in the UK.
Trudy chaired a meeting of key personnel in Whitehaven today (Friday) at which the joint vision and justification for hosting SMRs in Copeland was outlin
