NUCLEAR high-tech jobs are making Warrington the ‘envy of other towns’, says Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols, after attending Nuclear Week in Parliament.
The Warrington North MP was delighted to join Nuclear Week in Parliament as the co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Nuclear.
Nuclear Week is an annual event in Parliament that brings together businesses, the workforce, and policymakers for a full programme of discussion.
Nuclear Week hosted many Warrington-based organisations, including Amentum, the UK National Nuclear Laboratory, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, NUVIA, Cavendish Nuclear, Bilfinger UK, Rolls-Royce and Great British Energy Nuclear – cementing Warrington’s status as a centre of excellence and innovation.
Warrington has just shy of 8000 jobs in civil nuclear, and growing, according to the latest figures from the Northern Nuclear Alliance. Many of these are based at Birchwood Park.
As the Labour co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Nuclear, Ms Nichols said: “We have been at the centre of our nation’s nuclear innovation for the past eighty years at what is now Birchwood Park. These high-tech, high-skilled, highly paid and unionised jobs make us an envy of other towns and cities who recognise how well set we are for the future with such an impressive workforce.
“This past week we celebrated the fifth annual Nuclear Week in parliament, our biggest yet, and it was a fantastic opportunity to bring people across the sector together and promote their possibilities, not least so many of our locally-based organisations. I was proud to host meetings across so many of these interested bodies and make the case to Ministers and investors for expansion of jobs in Warrington.
““I was also fortunate to meet with many constituents attending as experts, workers and apprentices able to speak about the incredible work that they do, and the opportunities for employment in nuclear – we have so many talented people doing great things.
“So many people worked hard to make this Week a great success, especially at the Nuclear Industry Association, and I look forward to the growing sector benefitting our economy, our environment, our energy security and of course Warrington as the key hub of our nuclear industries.”
More widely, the Government is committed to a Golden Age of Nuclear, with some huge decisions taken this year on Sizewell C, the SMR programme, on fusion and the Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce Review.
