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British Energy generates power workers of the future
The UK’s largest electricity supplier is using the Royal Navy’s spare capacity to help to train nuclear power-station workers of the future. With the UK Government recently inviting applications to build the country’s first new nuclear-power stations for a generation, British Energy has signed a £10 million partnership contract with the Royal Navy’s training partner, Flagship, to deliver its apprentice program for the next seven years. Ships’ propulsion units and generators are like self-contained power stations and submarines contain their own nuclear reactor. All this provides a good training ground for workers in the nuclear-power sector, which is expanding rapidly as oil and gas prices climb and concerns grow about the effect of carbon emissions on global warming.