By publishing a detailed Nuclear Strategic Plan, as we recommend, which includes the types and number of reactors to be built in the UK, the Government should provide a signal to the nuclear fuel industry to step up and increased its end-to-end fuel manufacturing capacity. The Government should set out in the Nuclear Strategic Plan how it will capitalise on the strengths of the UK’s nuclear fuel supply chain to secure a resilient supply of nuclear fuel for any new planned reactors and develop...

By publishing a detailed Nuclear Strategic Plan, as we recommend, which includes the types and number of reactors to be built in the UK, the Government should provide a signal to the nuclear fuel industry to step up and increased its end-to-end fuel manufacturing capacity. The Government should set out in the Nuclear Strategic Plan how it will capitalise on the strengths of the UK’s nuclear fuel supply chain to secure a resilient supply of nuclear fuel for any new planned reactors and develop further export opportunities. (Paragraph 90) Advanced nuclear technologies Type: recommendation | Number: 17 | Response status: under_consideration 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