Rolls-Royce snubbed for UK's first private nuclear station

Rolls-Royce's mini-nuclear plans have seemingly suffered a setback with the UK’s first privately-funded station set to use reactors built by a US group. Community Nuclear Power told The Telegraph it had reached an agreement with Westinghouse to supply the reactors with an announcement “imminent”. The new station will be on Teesside with power coming from four small nuclear reactors or SMRs. Producing up to 1.5 gigawatts of power or enough for up to two million homes, the target is to have the station up and ...