Rolls-Royce is leading the “largest national engineering collaboration the UK has ever seen” to build a series of mini nuclear power stations that it claims could deliver up to £400bn in global exports, 40,000 skilled jobs, and affordable, low-carbon electricity for decades to come.
The announcement by Rolls-Royce outlines a bold strategy to revolutionise the UK’s position in the global energy market, with a portfolio of small modular reactors (SMR) across parts of the UK and Wales that early reports indicate received an initial £18m grant from the government in November 2019, matched by the consortium. A joint investment…
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