Bright sparks start Torness apprenticeships
Torness Power Station’s latest recruits have joined the company to start their apprenticeships in the nuclear industry.
The three new recruits for the East Lothian station, Ewan Cowe (19) and Seth Paylor (20) from Dunbar and Domenik Blumfeld (16) from Musselburgh were appointed after an exhaustive recruitment process.
The group started their careers with EDF with a team-building week in the Lake District where they met other apprentices from power stations across the UK.
Maintenance Manager, Jamie McKenzie, said: “The group came to visit the station before their trip to Ullswater. It was a pleasure to welcome them to site and they showed a great deal of enthusiasm for the learning they are about to undertake. I wish them well as they start their new engineering careers.”
With the outward-bound course complete, the apprentices are now studying at the National Nuclear College in Somerset where they will spend the next two years. The apprentices will learn basic engineering skills in their first year, before specialising in their chosen trade in the second year.
The final two years of their apprenticeship will be spent back at the station where they will work with experienced nuclear professionals to learn more about the station.
Recruitment for the 2025 intake of apprentices will start in January.
About EDF
EDF is driving the transition towards An Electric Britain – a secure, affordable, low-carbon future for everyone. As Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity, we are investing more than £100 million weekly in Britain’s electricity infrastructure. We supply millions of customers with electricity and help homes and businesses switch to electricity for heating, transport and industrial processes.
We operate five nuclear power stations and more than 35 onshore wind farms and three offshore wind farms. Since 2009, EDF has invested almost £9 billion in the nuclear fleet to improve reliability and extend station lifetimes. The five generating stations currently supply about 12% of the UK’s electricity demand.
EDF is building the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C. We are a minority investor (12.5%) in and major supplier to a replica plant at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C will provide low carbon electricity to meet 14% of UK demand and power around 12 million homes. EDF Group companies Framatome and Arabelle Solutions have a presence in the UK and manufacture critical equipment such as reactor pressure vessels and turbines.
EDF is enabling its 5 million customers, both in business and at home, to choose electric solutions that save cash and carbon, whether it is buying an electric car, generating and storing electricity, selling energy back to the grid or installing solar panels or a heat pump. In 2025, EDF’s Customers business was ranked as one of the Sunday Times’s Best Place to Work.
It is also one of the UK’s leading developers of renewable energy through EDF power solutions UK and Ireland. We have more than 2GW of renewable generation in operation and over 10GW in construction, planning and development across a range of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar and battery storage.
We are one of the largest suppliers to British business and a leading supplier of innovative energy solutions that are helping businesses become more energy independent. In addition, the company’s energy services business, Dalkia, one of the UK and Ireland’s largest technical service providers.
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