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Committee Material Published 31 Jul 2023 ↗ View on Parliament

The UK is a leading global player in uranium enrichment and nuclear fuel fabrication and has the potential to replace Russia’s contribution to the global supply chain of advanced fuels. We welcome the launch and allocation of funding from the Nuclear Fuel Fund to support the development of the capabilities needed to meet current and future nuclear fuel demands. (Paragraph 128) Delivering nuclear power 103 Fusion

The UK is a leading global player in uranium enrichment and nuclear fuel fabrication and has the potential to replace Russia’s contribution to the global supply chain of advanced fuels. We welcome the launch and allocation of funding from the Nuclear Fuel Fund to support the development of the capabilities needed to meet current and future nuclear fuel demands. (Paragraph 128) Delivering nuclear power 103 Fusion Type: conclusion | Number: 25 | Response status: accepted Government response: A secure and resilient supply of nuclear fuel is a vital enabler of our ambitions to deploy civil nuclear power in the UK and is therefore essential to our energy security. The UK has many decades of experience in the nuclear fuel supply chain, carrying out enrichment at Capenhurst and manufacture o