Speeches by Young.

“Do you want to add anything on that, Mark?”

“Is there a danger sometimes that the focus on local jobs is on the lower-paid ones requiring fewer qualifications?”

“David, do you think there are any lessons that can be learnt about developing a workforce pipeline for future sites, either from the current UK nuclear sites or international projects?”

“Should you be getting that decommissioning capability in place before committing to further new builds?”

“David, you look like you want to say something.”

“Given we have had this long gap, we are stuck in the middle, aren’t we, in that we have a history of nuclear but we have had a long break?”

“Presumably there will be the same dip but shifted decades on, in that there will be a period where we were not building. Given that we are extending lives of power stations, there will be a period where we will not be adding to the number being decommissioned as much. There is a period where we are, which is now, but t…”

“I represent an area that has a decommissioning power station. Sue, often the political focus is on the new reactors because we all like new and shiny in politics, don’t we? But nuclear obviously requires skills across that entire lifecycle. Do you think that that focus has overshadowed the needs of decommissioning, was…”

“Should you be getting that decommissioning capability in place before committing to further new builds?”

“Do you want to add anything on that, Mark?”

“Sue mentioned the division between the public sector for the decommissioning versus the competing private sector companies building the new power stations. Do you see that distinction as being a problem and do you have any suggestions for that?”

“Is there a formal mentoring role or something that the industry needs to be managing its workforce?”

“Given we have had this long gap, we are stuck in the middle, aren’t we, in that we have a history of nuclear but we have had a long break?”

“The peculiarity with nuclear is the way it is had the dip.”

“I represent an area that has a decommissioning power station. Sue, often the political focus is on the new reactors because we all like new and shiny in politics, don’t we? But nuclear obviously requires skills across that entire lifecycle. Do you think that that focus has overshadowed the needs of decommissioning, was…”

“Presumably there will be the same dip but shifted decades on, in that there will be a period where we were not building. Given that we are extending lives of power stations, there will be a period where we will not be adding to the number being decommissioned as much. There is a period where we are, which is now, but t…”

“Where it has dropped and picked up and how they have done the picking up.”

“Mark, is the UK preparing enough skilled personnel for the long-term decommissioning waste programmes or will we have a shortage in this?”

“Are there other examples internationally?”

“Where it has dropped and picked up and how they have done the picking up.”