Securing a strong nuclear future

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 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.

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.

Trudy has hailed the Government’s new energy strategy as a “massive step forward for the nuclear industry”.

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.

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.

Trudy has welcomed progress towards the introduction of a new financing model for new large-scale nuclear power projects.

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.

Trudy has responded to a ‘call for evidence’ consultation into the potential of High Temperature Gas Reactors (HTGRs).

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.