Roll-Royce SMR reveals shortlist for site of first factory to make major reactor components

Rolls-Royce SMR, a subsidiary company of the UK-based global major power and propulsion systems group Rolls-Royce, has announced its shortlist of locations to build its first factory (of three) that will produce the components for its small modular nuclear reactor (SMR). The Rolls-Royce SMR company was set up by the Rolls-Royce-led SMR consortium, the other members of which were (and now shareholders in the company are) Assystem, Atkins, BAM Nuttall, Jacobs, Laing O’Rourke, the (UK) National …