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Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 October 2025

Debate

Modular Nuclear Programme

Contribution

My Lords, wind turbines are modular—they are manufactured in factories and built on site—and modular reactors will be the same. We do not want to make the same mistake with modular reactors that was made over decades with wind turbines. There are 11,000 wind turbines on these islands, nearly 5,000 of them in Scotland. Not one of them was manufactured in Scotland and very few were manufactured elsewhere in the United Kingdom—I cannot find any evidence of any being manufactured here. These are key jobs. Are we going to build manufacturing plants—that is, factories—that will make the modular parts of these reactors? Is that the deal we made with the US?

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