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IFB Nuclear UK event puts Warrington centre-stage

Nuclear UK, a key event in the International Festival of Business (IFB) programme will take place in Warrington on Wednesday 25 June 2014.

The event being held at Warrington’s Park Royal Hotel will be attended by hundreds of delegates from across the UK and will comprise strategic leadership forum aiming to promote ideas and innovations that will drive development of the nuclear industry in the future.

Nuclear UK boasts a stellar list of key industry speakers including Steph McGovern, BBC Breakfast, John Clarke, CEO at NDA and Tim Chittenden, President of the Nuclear Institute.

Warrington is the birthplace of the UK’s nuclear industry, and the location of world-class nuclear engineering, research, training and project delivery expertise. More people are employed in the nuclear sector in Warrington than anywhere else in the UK.

The International Festival of Business is the largest global congregation of business events during 2014, running across seven weeks in June and July and attracting business delegates and trade intermediaries from around the globe.

A Women in Nuclear breakfast seminar event is also set to take place on 25 June 2014 prior to Nuclear UK at which Dame Sue Ion, vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering and expert advisor on the nuclear power industry will lead a panel of speakers and Q&A.

The event is being organised by Warrington & Co., Warrington’s partnership for economic growth.

The headline sponsor is Britain’s Energy Coast.Other sponsors include EDF Energy, National Nuclear Laboratory, Westinghouse and AMEC. Other event supporters include: Warrington and Co., Marketing Cheshire, Nuclear Industry Association, CBI, the National Skills Academy for Nuclear, Nuclear AMRC and the Nuclear Forum.

Cllr Terry O’Neill, leader of Warrington Borough Council said: “Warrington is very proud to be hosting this premier event. The UK’s is at the forefront of a global nuclear renaissance and that strength is underpinned by our heritage, experience and knowledge of the nuclear industry.

“We are also proud to welcome Women in Nuclear breakfast seminar which will precede Nuclear UK. It is the first time that such an event has been hosted in the North West”.

Steve Park, managing director of Warrington & Co., Warrington’s partnership for economic growth said: “Warrington was the first town to sign up to IFB and it is fitting that this event, which will be a national and international showcase of nuclear excellence, is being held in the town.

“The nuclear industry is driven by the engineering skills and nuclear base here created here in Warrington. Over 4,500 people work in the nuclear industry here and that figure is set to increase”.

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