UK SCRAMBLES TO PREPARE FOR EURATOM EXIT – NUCLEAR INVESTMENT AND RECRUITMENT MAY FALTER
March 1st, 2018
EXPERTS on Britain’s civil nuclear industry have warned that the UK is running out of time to prepare itself for the country’s exit from European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), due to the complexity of replicating its nuclear standards in UK law.
When Britain quits the European Union (EU) on March 29, 2019, it will not only revoke the Treaty on European Union, but the legally separate Euratom Treaty, which governs and helps fund how member states regulate, control and develop their nuclear sectors. The UK has 15 nuclear reactors, which data from the ...
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