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A single Rolls-Royce SMR power station will occupy the footprint of two football pitches and power approximately one million homes. Rolls-Royce secures £450m to build mini nuclear reactors Skip ...
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech power company CEZ signed a deal Tuesday with Britain’s Rolls-Royce SMR to form a strategic partnership to develop and deploy small modular nuclear reactors. Under the agreement, CEZ will acquire a 20% share in Rolls-Royce SMR for which it will pay several billion Czech crowns (hundreds of millions of dollars).
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.
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.
Rolls-Royce is preparing a close-coupled three-loop PWR design, sometimes called the UK SMR. [ 104 ] [ 105 ] The power output was originally planned to be 440 MWe, later increased to 470 MWe, which is above the usual range considered to be a SMR.
In 2020, EDF Energy put forward plans to build two EPR units, replicating Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C, for a total capacity of 3.2 GWe.In parallel, a Rolls-Royce-led UK SMR consortium announced plans for a low-carbon power station around a small, light-water reactor Rolls-Royce SMR linked with renewable energy generation, hydrogen production and battery storage technologies. [2]
"Rolls-Royce has a world class workforce and the government is right to invest in it." Derby South MP Baggy Shanker said it was a great day for the city, and was "a landmark deal between the ...
On 1 April 2022, the GDA Step 1 of the 470 MWe Rolls-Royce SMR started. [32] Step 2 will begin once the timescales and resources have been agreed. [33]