Nuclear Skills Delivery Board should accelerate efforts to build knowledge and experience
Accelerate skills development
We support the Nuclear Skills Plan but urge greater focus on key skills and relevant experience. Effective leadership and greater collaboration are needed across government and industrial skills bodies to maximise the development of nuclear skills for the future.
Technical training should include specific focus on tolerability of risk and on digital skills. This must be augmented with the development of non-technical skills for all staff and a greater priority given to human factors.
Workforce experience should be broadened, including regulatory and dutyholder roles, through secondments and mentoring programmes. This could be delivered by strengthening the 'Interchange' programme and by establishing a strategic approach to engaging senior workers and willing retirees in mentoring, coaching, and advising early career staff.
Government Response: Skills plan with scaled interchange and new training elements
Implementation is proceeding through the Nuclear Skills Plan. The Interchange programme is being scaled dramatically from 20 to 160 placements per year by 2029-30, and a Sector Experts into Training programme is being established. New training elements covering risk tolerance, digital skills, and human factors will be in place by September 2026. This directly addresses the Taskforce's emphasis on broadening workforce experience through secondments and strengthening non-technical skills, with concrete scaling targets that demonstrate serious commitment to delivery.
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