Nottinghamshire County Council leader and local MP Ben Bradley said billions of pounds in investment and thousands of new jobs are anticipated following news the world’s first fusion energy reactor will be built in the county.
The Government announced earlier this week that the prototype power plant will be at the West Burton A power station site, in north Nottinghamshire.
The site was one of 15 locations being considered for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production project – known as STEP – which is being led by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Ratcliffe-on-Soar, in the south of the county, was dropped from the shortlist at the start of 2022 because of a land availability issue.
