UK SMR consortium urges action on jobs and exports

Led by Rolls-Royce, the consortium believes that up to 80 per cent of contracts to build SMR components could be fulfilled in factories in the Midlands and northern England, before being transported to existing nuclear sites for assembly inside weatherproof canopies.

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The consortium further claims that as well as a further 34,000 long-term jobs by the mid-2030s, the power stations will provide low carbon energy to produce net zero synthetic aviation fuels and hydrogen.

In a statement, Tom Samson, interim CEO of the UK SMR Consortium, said: “We have developed a manufacturing and assembly process that will make reliable, low carbon nuclear power affordable, deliverable and investable.

“By creating a factory-built power station that rolls off the assembly line we have radically reduced many construction risks associated with new nuclear power stations; and by using proven nuclear technology alongside standardised and simplified components, we make it much more cheaply.”