In response to the National Audit Office’s report into Sizewell C, Tom Greatrex, Nuclear Industry Association Chief Executive, said:
“This is money well spent on industrial revival and job creation today, and on Britain’s long-term energy security, economic resilience and clean power future.
“The NAO is right that Sizewell C is a generational investment. It will still be producing reliable, clean electricity well into the next century. Governments have to take decisions and make serious investments in the national interest, and that is exactly what was done here.
“The idea that Britain could have waited to see whether ‘something cheaper might turn up’ ignores the reality of the last decade. The UK has lived through the worst energy crisis in generations and now faces renewed instability driven by volatile international gas markets and geopolitical tensions. Britain needs secure, homegrown power that is not exposed to global fossil fuel shocks.
“Sizewell C is also enabling cheaper delivery of future nuclear projects by keeping the workforce and supply chain active and building up Britain’s experience in major project delivery. It helps end the damaging stop-start approach that has held back efficient infrastructure delivery for decades.”
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