Sizewell C power station construction site screen for staff park and ride site, Wickham Market, Suffolk, England, UK. (Photo by: Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Rachel Reeves has agreed to spend £14 billion of taxpayers’ money on a nuclear plant at Sizewell C.The chancellor will announce the move, which is part of her spending review, at the GMB Congress on Tuesday.It is expected to create 10,000 jobs, including 1,500 apprenticeships.Energy secretary Ed Miliband said the project, which will be the first new nuclear plant to open in the UK since 1995, will help to usher in “a golden age of clean energy abundance”.Sizewell C was one of eight potential sites for new nuclear plants identified in 2009, when Miliband was last energy secretary.However, the project was never completed during 14 years of Tory government.It is expected that the plant will come on stream in the 2030s.Reeves said the announcement showed that Labo
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