Information ℹ️28 Apr 2024 11:20
Rolls confirmed it no longer intends to proceed with that plan because there is no longer time to build the factory and make the first pressure vessels for the early 2030s, when it hopes to complete its first SMRs.
🗣. Issue is Time. BUTTTTT
Instead the engineering giant will now buy its heavy pressure vessels from a third party supplier.
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From the Government, they want their cut too$$$
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Sheffield Forgemasters, which was nationalised by the Ministry of Defence in 2021.
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Earlier this month, Sheffield became the sole UK company to gain the qualifications needed to make SMR reactor vessel components.