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In January 2025, Rolls-Royce was awarded a c. £9 billion, 8 year contract, named "Unity", by the UK Ministry of Defence. This contract includes the design, manufacture and support of all nuclear reactors in Royal Navy submarines. This will support the beginning of the previously announced SSN-AUKUS contracts. [45]
This program will take several years to complete. The E-4s will continue to fulfill the role in the meantime. Sierra Nevada Corporation was selected to develop the aircraft. [2] The company announced that the aircraft will be based on 747-8i and will be collaborating with Rolls Royce. [3] [4] [5]
These businesses had a revenue of $70 million and about 500 employees in 2018. Rolls-Royce is keeping its nuclear new build and small modular reactor (SMR) business in the UK. [56] In November 2020, the company announced plans to build up to 16 Rolls-Royce SMR nuclear plants across the UK, continuing its nuclear division operations. [57]
Rolls-Royce has been working on so-called nuclear microreactors for more than three years. The company said the reactors could provide energy for data centers, mining, and space missions.
It was created as a joint company in 1954 with the name Rolls-Royce and Associates; the associates being Vickers, Foster Wheeler and later Babcock & Wilcox. It changed its name on 15 January 1999 to Rolls-Royce Marine Power Operations Limited and is part of the marine business of Rolls-Royce plc.
The Rolls-Royce SMR, also known as the UK SMR, [1] is a small modular reactor (SMR) design being developed by the Rolls-Royce (RR) company in the United Kingdom. The company has been given financial support by the UK Government to develop its design.
The United States is the main navy with nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (10), while Russia has nuclear-powered cruisers. Russia has eight nuclear icebreakers in service or building. Since its inception in 1948, the U.S. Navy nuclear program has developed 27 different plant designs, installed them in 210 nuclear-powered ships, taken 500 ...
It went critical in 1965. HMS Vulcan is a Rolls-Royce PWR 1 reactor plant and tested Cores A, B and Z before being shut down in 1984. In 1987, the plant was re-commissioned as LAIRD (Loss of Coolant Accident Investigation Rig Dounreay) a non-nuclear test rig, the only one of its kind in the world.