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Johnson pledges £700m to Sizewell C

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Boris Johnson has pledged £700m to help fund the UK’s next nuclear power station at Sizewell on the Suffolk coast.

Sizewell aerial CGI
Sizewell aerial CGI - (Image: EDF)

In a speech delivered yesterday (Sept 1, 2022) at EDF’s Sizewell B nuclear power plant, the outgoing prime minister said ‘we must pull our national finger out and get on with Sizewell C’.

“This new reactor is just a part of our Great British nuclear campaign,” he said. “We will build a reactor a year again. We will build them across the country, at least eight of them, large ones and small modular reactors.”

Rated at 3.2GW, the proposed twin-reactor power station received planning permission in July 2022. EDF estimates that the new facility will support 70,000 jobs across the UK and create 1,500 apprenticeships. The company predicts also that around £1.5bn will be spent in Suffolk during construction and that the project will make an estimated lifetime contribution of £4bn to the regional economy.

It is also estimated that Sizewell C will have a lifecycle carbon footprint of 5.5g CO2 equivalent per kWh of generation.

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