How can Europe Fund its Defence without Breaking the Bank?

The Rusi report, compiled by Darya Dolzikova, warns that nuclear power plants – which are seen by many as a green alternative to burning fossil fuels to generate electricity – may be targeted more widely as a result of what has happened in Zaporizhzhia."

China has been spreading the argument that stability in the Indo-Pacific region is an intra-regional issue. One of the messages from the UK through this deployment of the aircraft carrier strike group is that we do not think so. We have friends and partners in the Indo-Pacific and we are making important investments. We cannot be isolated or divided from our friends."

Trevor Taylor, director of the Defence, Industries & Society Programme at the Royal United Services Institute, outlined the advantages of the new process. A small-scale process avoids safety risks associated with a single large production plant, Taylor told BI. He added that the company's ambition is likely to be "to control costs at lower production rates, and to be able to surge production levels by operating more hours when needed without a large labor force that would be idle in less pressing times."