{"id":49838,"date":"2024-03-25T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49838"},"modified":"2024-03-25T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:00:22","slug":"uk-government-to-unveil-200-million-nuclear-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49838","title":{"rendered":"UK Government to Unveil \u00a3200 Million Nuclear Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Monday announce \u00a3200 million ($252 million) of public investment to boost the UK&#8217;s nuclear deterrent programme and its civil nuclear industry, which the government says will support 40,000 expected new jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government will partner with industry leaders including BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and EDF and Babcock to invest at least \u00a3763 million by 2030 in skills, jobs and education, Sunak&#8217;s Downing Street office said in a press release ahead of his announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The investment aims to ensure that the northern England town of Barrow-in-Furness, where Sunak will make the announcement, &#8220;thrives as the home of UK nuclear submarine-building&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Safeguarding the future of our nuclear deterrent and nuclear energy industry is a critical national endeavour,&#8221; Sunak said ahead of his visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a more dangerous and contested world, the UK&#8217;s continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent is more vital than ever. And nuclear delivers cheaper, cleaner home-grown energy for consumers,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s why we are investing in Barrow, the home of UK submarines, and in the jobs and skills of the future in the thriving British nuclear industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Monday announce \u00a3200 million ($252 million) of public investment to boost the UK&#8217;s nuclear deterrent programme and its civil nuclear industry, which the government says will support 40,000 expected new jobs. The government will partner with industry leaders including BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and EDF and Babcock to invest at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[910],"class_list":["post-49838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-uk-government-to-unveil-200-million-nuclear-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}