The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee’s ‘Workforce planning to deliver clean, secure energy’ inquiry.

The NIA is the trade association and representative body for the civil nuclear industry in the UK. We represent more than 300 companies operating across all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, including the current and prospective operators of nuclear power stations, international designers, and vendors of nuclear power stations, and those engaged in decommissioning, waste management and nuclear liabilities management. Members also include nuclear equipment suppliers, engineering and construction firms, nuclear research organisations, and legal, financial and consultancy companies.

Due to the diversity of our membership, our views in this submission will cover high-level, industrywide matters. Our members may choose to make their own detailed submissions.

Executive Summary

The civil nuclear sector has a long history of delivering innovation and investment, creating highly skilled jobs, and providing low carbon power across the UK. The number of people
working in the civil nuclear industry in the UK is at its highest level ever with over 86,000 people employed across the sector. Major new nuclear projects have helped drive a 60%
increase in the number of jobs in the sector in the last decade. Innovations in advanced nuclear technology have also helped drive the number of jobs in the sector, with a growing workforce of over 700 people involved in the development of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).

 

Please click here to view our response.

 

Further Information

The NIA is happy to provide more context, or any clarifications desired on the content of our response and to ask our members where appropriate for additional information that may be useful.

Please contact Elisabeth Roden, Policy Analyst for the Nuclear Industry Association, at [email protected] to do this.

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