The UK’s first nuclear fusion site will be built in Nottinghamshire and could generate around 10,000 jobs.
The coal-fired West Burton A power station, near Retford, has been chosen as the location for the innovative, multi-billion-pound energy plant, with work expect to begin in the next decade. The reactor, known as the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), will not be operational, though, until around 2040, reports Nottinghamshire Live.
Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced the plans at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham on Monday (October 3). He said: “The plant will be the first of its kind, built by 2040, and capable of putting energy on the grid and in doing so it will prove the commercial viability of fusion energy to the world.”
