Rolls-Royce SMR has submitted its final tender to Great British Nuclear (GBN) at the end of a six-month period of detailed negotiations on the deployment of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the UK.
Last year, Rolls-Royce SMR was shortlisted by GBN alongside three international nuclear technology vendors. A successful outcome for the home-grown technology will be transformational for the UK – immediately unlocking supply chain investment, creating thousands of long-term high-skilled jobs and generating enormous opportunities for growth.
Chris Cholerton, Rolls-Royce SMR Chief Executive, said: “I am grateful for the dedication and teamwork of everyone at Rolls-Royce SMR who has contributed to our submission. We have a world-class team behind a market-leading product, and I am confident we have provided a compelling offer to GBN, to partner with them in delivering the next generation of nuclear power for the UK.”
Rolls-Royce SMR has already been selected in the Czech Republic, by the leading European utility CEZ, to deliver up to 3 GW of electricity and has been shortlisted by Vattenfall in its competition to select a nuclear technology for deployment in Sweden.
Further cementing its position as Europe’s leading SMR technology, Rolls-Royce SMR is progressing through the final stage of the assessment by the UK nuclear industry’s independent regulators – further ahead than any other SMR technology.
Each Rolls-Royce SMR ‘factory-built’ nuclear power plant will generate enough stable low-carbon electricity to power a million homes for 60+ years, using a radically new approach to deploying proven nuclear technology.
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