Britain’s nuclear future threatened by Brexit

The continuing operation of the UK nuclear industry has been put at risk by the planned exit from the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) following Brexit. This would also threaten the UK’s ‘lead in fusion research and in effect throw away decades of research’ according to members of the Lords science and technology committee. Its report on nuclear research and technology also warns that the UK could lose access to ‘the markets and skills it needs to construct new nuclear power plants’, and may even ‘leave existing power stations unable to acquire fuel’.