News / Brèves Back to previous selection / Retour à la sélection précédente British Nuclear Program To Produce 25,000 New Jobs 29 October 2013 (EIRNS)— British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that his government’s program to build new nuclear power stations will create 25,000 highly skilled jobs, according the today’s Dutch daily Handelsblad. Nuclear News reports that the new, £16 billion nuclear plant, Hinkley Point, to be built by French and Chinese companies, will have 57% of its value going to British companies, especially Rolls Royce, which is already a producer of nuclear technology. Project developer EDF Energy has selected fellow French firms Areva and Alstom to lead manufacturing of the plant’s reactor system and turbines, respectively, but most of the other work will be subcontracted to British firms. The British companies involved include Costain for the marine elements of the project and Laing O’Rourke, which, together with the French firm, Bouygues TP, will lead civil construction. "There are a couple of major structural components like the nuclear steam supply system and the main turbine, which aren’t going to be provided from within the U.K., because we don’t have the capability to do that," said Chris Savage, industrial adviser to the Nuclear Industry Association. "But there are a lot of components that are supplied into both of those major pieces, things like the radioactive waste treatment plant, the heating and ventilation, a lot of the pipework and valves for the secondary systems outside the pressurized primary circuits, along with the control and instrumentation. So there’s a lot of value outside the nuclear island and the main turbine where the there’s a lot of UK capability." At least one-third of the value of work on the two 1,750MW steam turbine systems will also be awarded to U.K. companies, according to primary contractor Alstom, which said the main opportunities will be in the supporting systems, including piping, and instrumentation and control. [DEA]