Building new nuclear power stations is a vital element of our dedication to meet the UK's energy desires and to reduce carbon-dioxide strength.The United Kingdom power industry desires substantial investment in the following decade to replace aging coal and nuclear power stations and help deliver a reasonable, lower carbon economy. Nuclear power is a well-established, globally proved, low carbon technology capable of providing big scale, baseload, creating capacity in the future.

Its total lifetime carbon impact is similar with other low carbon technologies like wind energy. This takes account of emissions linked with construction and decommissioning of nuclear plants and with mining, transport, enrichment, fuel turn out and spent fuel storage.Additionally, the uranium needed to fuel existing and potential new stations is widely available and can be discovered in politically stable nations in different physical locations to the sources of gas, coal and oil supplies.

In England, the nuclear industry currently employs over forty thousand folk, with over forty thousand further roles made by the investment, research and development the industry brings with it. There are employs over thirteen thousand folk in Great Britain, including over two thousand involved in power generation.

The investment in nuclear new build will generate important opportunities including potentially more than eight thousand new roles in total. Guesstimate this could include:-

* around 5-800 permanent roles at each 3GW site, plus masses of further roles in the local popularion

* up to five thousand construction roles made at every 3GW site over the 9 year construction period.