A UK site that was formerly one of the first civil nuclear power stations in the world has been sold for £6.5m (€7.6m, $8.4m) with the new owners planning to redevelop it as a “super cluster” for nuclear energy research, training and AI.
South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (SGS) first agreed to sell its 40-acre (16-hectare) science park in Berkeley, southwest England, to Chiltern Vital Berkeley in January.
The park was set up in 2016 when SGS bought the redundant Berkeley nuclear power station site for £3m from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a public body responsible for cleaning up the UK’s legacy nuclear sites.
The college put the site up for sale in 2023, reportedly soon after a site visit from Great British Nuclear (GBN), the government body formed to oversee the deployment of new nuclear capacity in the UK.