UK National Nuclear Laboratory sets out plans to support domestic energy ambitions beyond 2030
The strategic plan is built around five science missions.
The United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory’s plan sees continued investment across its four research centres and three professional hubs.
The five science missions are:
- Future energy: To ensure the next generation of nuclear energy systems are deployed based on scientific evidence and understanding, strengthening the UK’s energy security and its clean energy ambitions.
- Fuel: To ensure that the UK has a secure and sustainable domestic nuclear fuel capability.
- Fleet support: To make sure the UK’s nuclear assets are supported by the science, infrastructure, programmes and evidence needed
- Plutonium science: To enable the safe, secure and sustainable stewardship of the UK’s plutonium inventory and other nationally important nuclear materials
- Environmental restoration and health: To reduce the UK’s nuclear liabilities and protect the people and places around them, and recovering rare radioisotopes for use in nuclear medicine and space exploration
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