SCOTLAND has lost out on the chance to host a “pioneering” nuclear fusion plant as the project was awarded to a rival location south of the Border.
A group involving Glasgow University and North Ayrshire Council had put in a bid to host the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (Step) on the Ardeer Peninsula, near Stevenston but has lost out to a competitor in West Burton, Nottinghamshire.
It would have seen the project – which critics have said is experimental technology – bring around 4500 jobs to North Ayrshire.
