Rolls-Royce Get Go Ahead For SMRs
The tortoise has advanced a few more inches!
The Statement notes:
As part of the government’s modern Industrial Strategy to revive Britain’s industrial heartlands, the government is pledging over £2.5 billion for the overall small modular reactor programme in this Spending Review period – with this project potentially supporting up to 3,000 new skilled jobs and powering the equivalent of around 3 million homes with clean, secure homegrown energy.
There is no detail on how that £2.5 billion will be paid out, or whether it will be CAPEX subsidies or CfD support.
The reference to “3 million homes” indicates annual generation of about 10 TWh, just 3% of UK consumption, which will barely make a dent. It also suggest capacity of about 1400 MW.
The Government also state that these SMRs will come on stream in the 2030s.
If they are as wonderful as Ed Miliband suggests, (I suspect through gritted teeth!), we should put an immediate halt to new offshore wind farms and launch a rapid deployment of SMRs instead.
UPDATE
The generation has been corrected from 1 TWh to 10 TWh
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Alan
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Rolls Royce is a private company. The shareholders should fund this, not taxpayers, unless we all get shares.
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Ken Hughes
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This should have been dome years ago. We’ve had the technology a long time.
Proven safe and reliable on HMS submarines, the whole country should be covered in them, instead of stupid wind turbines and solar panels.
Stand alone, independant, reliable, sustainable, why on Earth would we use anything else.
Also great in times of war – Much more difficult to destroy hundreds of SMRs than a few gas powered plants.
The article did not say the power output of each single unit? or how many units are being purchased? Come on, we want the facts please.
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Aaron
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you want facts?
good luck with that, every thing is a puff piece these days
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Rüdiger
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470MW
https://gda.rolls-royce-smr.com/our-technology
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