Hinkley Point C - a kick for jobs and science
With 25,000 job opportunities and over 5,600 people expected to work on the site during core construction, the project is touching the lives of many. Hinkley Point C new nuclear power station won’t just deliver the low carbon electricity needed to power six million homes, as vital as that is.
As one of the biggest construction projects in Europe, it will create a huge number of jobs across a range of sectors.
25,000 job opportunities:
In the course of building the UK’s first new nuclear power station in a generation, 25,000 different roles will be filled on the project, with almost 6,000 people on site together at the busiest time.
The plant is in the early pre-planning stage which will involve “years of investigative works and public consultations” before detailed proposals are produced, allowing a planning application to be made, states CGN.
Building the UK’s skills capacity
It’s also good news for the UK, because many of the thousands of people working at Hinkley over the next decade will take their skills to other projects, building the railways, runways, super-sewers and other infrastructure that the UK desperately needs.
And many more of these people will help British businesses win nuclear and other supply chain contracts all over the world. What starts in Somerset could end in Sydney or Singapore.