Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment

Ed Miliband and the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, on a visit to an engineering firm in Cambridge two days before her spending review. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/Treasury

The biggest nuclear programme in a generation will “get Britain off the fossil fuel rollercoaster”, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has said, announcing £14.2bn to build a new nuclear power station and a drive to build small modular reactors.

The multibillion-pound investment at Sizewell C on the Suffolk coast, which has been long expected, will create 10,000 jobs and power the equivalent of 6m homes.