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10 June 2025

Rolls-Royce wins bid for first UK small nuclear reactors

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Europe

Rolls-Royce has won a competition to be the first company to try to build small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) in the UK, as part of a government effort to push Britain to the frontier of nuclear energy technology.The UK’s Great British Energy announced Rolls-Royce as the preferred bidder for...

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