Could Rolls Royce’s Small Modular Reactor Bring Manufacturing Back to Britain?

Rolls Royce’s Small Modular Reactor (SMR), an opportunity for the United Kingdom. Britain could manufacture mini nuclear reactors/power stations for export in a matter of years.

Britain doesn’t manufacture as much as it used to. What was once a bustling manufacturing economy now has less than 10% of its GDP attributed to manufacturing.

But advances in small modular reactor technology offers opportunity to transform energy grids around the world. And Rolls Royces work in this field offers the UK an opportunity to use this to their advantage. 

With an estimated market of $18.8 billion dollars by 2030, could SMRs be the key to help bring some manufacturing back to the shores of the UK? Catch up with France’s intellectual property advantage when it comes to all things nuclear. And secure the nations energy supply with low cost domestic carbon free energy.

Rolls Royce’s small modular reactors offer the prospect of nuclear power stations that can be built anywhere. Other companies like NuScale, TerraPower and Westinghouse are all building SMRs. So how will the battle for market share conclude. Nuclear energy.

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[williampmcd]

Best success RR co, to the benefit of UK et al

[ashardalondragnipurake]

im sure the government will find a way to block it
having the people not suppressed by energy rationing just doesnt sound like something the eu will allow

[stickynorth]

SMR's are definitely the future of nuclear power IF they can scale up especially with the sheer number of designs that are now being approved or built including the Moltex SMR at Point Lepreau and the GE-Hitachi BWRX 300 under construction at Darlington both here in Canada...

[chaptertravels]

It would make more sense for Britain to support another homegrown SMR, Moltex Energy. It not only produces cheap electricity (cheaper than RR) but also raw industrial heat needed in hundreds of manufacturing operations.

[rayalexander]

The key is obtaining affordable fuel in the form of HALEU. ASP Isotopes will likely be the dominant supplier of the highly enriched uranium.

[castleclimber]

At 4:31 into the video, I think you meant to say “but can cost in the tens of billions to build” (rather than tens of millions).

[aaronknight]

Copenhagen Atomics has a great thorium system worth checking out, their protoype is supposed to be ready in 2025.

[BertWald-wppz]

I think, given the problems of intermittency and backup for wind and solar nuclear overproduction with hydrogen of ammonia generated with surplus is the way forward. Balancing peaks is extremely costly due to standby duplication. Long term Molten Salt and Thorium will help deal with nuclear waste but at present we need a short term/interim nuclear option that is flexible, as safe as possible and easy to roll out at scale without too much regulatory delay. Due to factory production SMRs look promising on this front.

[augustkasemaa]

It would be interesting to see you talk about some other promising SMRs as well (like GE for example). Greetings from Estonia!

[paulsutton]

This is making the best of a bad technology - the PWR.
We should be concentrating our resources on the molten salt reactor.
The French reactor at Hinckley is a horrible concoction.

[patricktwo]

We all need to learn how to get by with 95% less stuff.

[anthonygebala]

Let’s face it we need smrs, solar and wind just won’t be enough and fossil fuels will eventually run out.

[johnj]

GET ON WITH IT! Stop talking and start doing!

[ryuuguu]

Some interesting facts but when Ia source only mentions advantages and no disadvantages it leaves me wondering whether those unmentioned problems are large or huge. You only compared it to renewable power on land use not cost or even the cost of firmed renewable power. You say cheap power but no mention of cost/Kwh or if this includes the cost of insurance or waste disposal

[joso]

Excellent. But don't talk too loud until Rishi Sunak is out-of-power because he doesn't like British success.

[charlesashurst]

But what about the high level waste? People say over and over that the waste is not a problem. The day I believe that is the day the world has at least one working long term high level waste storage facility.

[FJStraußinger]

nucler
lobby Propaganda!

mycle schneider wnis2023 there is no renaissance

but

the bulletin interview: trumpism enters energy policy!

[charlesashurst]

How would we like if the Romans had had nuclear energy and we and our children were stuck with managing the Romans’ nuclear waste? What would be our attitude towards the Romans?

[PaulWRXSheffield]

Why would anyone want small local nuclear bombs near them, hasn’t this country or the world learnt

[leecheong]

Talk talk talk zero substance like the G20.