Levelling Up with Reactor Parts

in North Wales shortlisted as potential locations. Rolls-Royce has shortlisted
Sunderland, Teesside and Deeside in North Wales as potential locations for its
first factory supplying parts for mini nuclear reactors. The engineering giant
will choose one as the site for a £100m-£200m facility expected to create more
than 200 jobs, The Sunday Telegraph reported. It is a major boost for
Rolls-Royce’s plans to build around 30 Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), with the
first powering homes within the decade. SMRs are small stations the size of two
football pitches – around a tenth of the size of a normal nuclear plant – with
the capacity to power a million homes. Rolls-Royce will build at least three
factories making SMR parts in what Tom Samson, boss of the division, said is
‘an incredible opportunity for a region of the UK’. He added: ‘Our power
stations will be built in British factories situated in the North of England or
Wales and will generate tens of thousands of long-term highly skilled jobs –
accelerating regional economic growth.’ A source said Teesside, which has the
UK’s only freeport that is operating, looks ‘promising’.

Daily Mail 18th
Dec 2022

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