NRI Annual Review 2025 - Flipbook - Page 31
By Mark Popplewell,
Managing Director, NRI
Here in the UK, the government has clear
ambitions to make Britain a clean energy
superpower and deliver a new industrial
strategy that drives their central mission
for growth. The nuclear skills agenda
contributes to all these missions, playing
an essential role in maintaining national
security, delivering a resilient future energy
system and boosting economic prosperity.
However, amidst ambitious goals of growing
the UK’s nuclear sector, we face a key hurdle:
attracting the talent needed to create an industry
fit for the future. Madano, our communications
consultancy, recently hosted an insightful panel
discussion in collaboration with the Nuclear
Institute; the event focused on the challenges
and opportunities faced by the industry in
meeting growth aspirations amidst the nuclear
skills shortage.
The National Nuclear Strategic Plan for Skills
clearly sets out the need for the sector to fill
40,000 new jobs by the end of the decade, which
will require doubling the current recruitment rate
for the sector. Paired with the ageing population
of the current skilled workforce, it’s expected that
the industry will also have a turnover of about
80,000 jobs in that time.
40,000
new jobs for the
sector to 昀椀ll by the
end of the decade
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