DECC says environmental jobs helping to protect UK-Green recruitment News 29 Mar 2010

Plans to create a further 3,000 sustainable and environmental jobs by 2012 for former Soviet Union nuclear weapons scientists will help to protect the UK, the government says.

The UK Global Threat Reduction Programme (GRTP) - the British government's contribution towards the G8's ten-year Global Partnership against the Spread of Nuclear Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction Programme - is working to tackle nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological terror threats around the world. In particular, the UK strategy focuses in on the former Soviet Union countries.

Forming a core part of the UK's counter-proliferation strategy, the programme aims to make the world a safer place. As part of the programme, the Closed Nuclear Cities/Centres Partnership intends to create 3,000 jobs for former Soviet Union scientists, said the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC).

Implementation of the nuclear and radiological elements, including the job development programme, of the GTRP falls to the department; and minister of state for energy, Lord Hunt says: "I am pleased we are making substantial progress with this crucial work in Russia and the Former Soviet Union."

Last week, the DECC announced eight companies had been given grants totalling £7.6 million to develop smart technologies in the future supply of energy.

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