Rolls Royce pulls plug on £200m plans for small modular reactor factory

By Tom Lowe2024-04-29T11:58:00

Move comes after delays to government design competition

Rolls Royce has mothballed its plans to build a £200m factory for manufacturing parts for small modular reactors (SMR) following delays to a government design competition.

The firm had planned to build two factories to support its SMR programme, one for manufacturing heavy pressure vessels and the other for assembling modular units.

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