About Rolls Royce SMR

About Rolls-Royce SMR

The world faces a global energy emergency driven by rising prices, uncertainty, and instability of supply, over reliance on hydrocarbons and older nuclear power stations reaching the end of their operational lives.

New nuclear will play a vital role in bringing reliable, secure and affordable power, decarbonising industry and helping countries to meet their net zero commitments. The Rolls-Royce SMR is a radically new approach to deploying proven nuclear technology, economically and efficiently for a wide range of applications

Not just different. Designed for delivery

The case for nuclear has never been stronger, and the Rolls-Royce SMR has been specifically designed to avoid the difficulties that have impacted other ‘large-scale’ nuclear projects over recent years.

Rolls-Royce SMR is entirely focused on reducing project risk, increasing delivery certainty and is committed to developing a solution which will provide energy quickly and affordably to a wide variety of global locations.

This unique ‘factory-built’ approach means that approximately 90% of the plant will be factory fabricated, tested and delivered to site as modules, where they will be assembled and commissioned by the Rolls-Royce SMR team under an Engineering, Manufacture, Assembly (EMA) contract.

Offering a complete nuclear power station as a manufactured product delivers the cost and risk reductions and quality improvements associated with factory fabrication, while simultaneously removing the expense, lead-time and risk associated with developing a new, inexperienced supply chain and EPC contractor team for each new plant constructed.