National Manufacturing Summit 2022: Powering net zero with Rolls-Royce SMRs

Posted on 31 Jan 2022 by James Devonshire

Having secured £450m from government and investors, Rolls-Royce is moving ahead with its small modular reactor (SMR) venture, which forms part of the government’s 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution over the next decade. This new generation of nuclear reactors will be quicker and cheaper to roll out than their traditional large-scale counterparts.

Ahead of the Manufacturing Technology Centre‘s upcoming National Manufacturing Summit, James Devonshire sat down briefly with Alan Woods, Strategy and Business Development Director at Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors, who will be speaking at the event, to get a taste of what we can expect… JD: For our readers who aren’t fully up to speed, what…

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