Rolls-Royce shortlists sites for first SMR factory

Rolls-Royce has shortlisted six possible locations for the first of three offsite assembly factories to build key elements of the next-generation small nuclear reactor power stations.
The first £200m factory will manufacture the ‘heavy vessels’ for SMR power stations.
A further two factories will manufacture civils modules and mechanical electrical and plumbing modules.These will be transported to sites and assembled into a nuclear power station that will generate 470MW of low-