Our vision is to provide clean, affordable energy for all.

For nuclear power to be widely adopted and meaningfully contribute to the global effort to decarbonise, it needs to be commercially investable and reliably delivered.

The global challenge around decarbonisation is huge, with an increasing demand for clean, affordable electricity set to increase, driven by:

  • Increasing electrification of systems, including transport and heating systems

  • A growing hydrogen economy, where clean forms of hydrogen generation need clean electricity at large scale

  • The emergence of e-fuels and synthetic aviation fuels to enable decarbonisation of transport

  • An increasing demand for energy, driven by population growth and increasing global development

  • An increasing demand for constant forms of power to support a decarbonising electricity grid and growing technology industries, such as data centres.

What the Rolls-Royce SMR approach delivers

  • Repeatable cost, driven by factory manufactured product

  • Clean, reliable electricity at scale, at a price competitive with intermittent renewables

  • Rapid deployment - four years (nth of a kind) on-site construction time*

  • Low risk, single entity delivery model under an EMA contract

  • Minimised site disruption during construction (average of 500 people on site removes requirement for extensive worker infrastructure)

*for a fleet unit

  • Highly scalable through innovative production methodology

  • Can fit within existing infrastructure (grid, transport)

  • Compact footprint increases site flexibility and maximises potential plant locations (including replacement for existing coal or gas-fired plants)

  • Indirect cooling option increases siting flexibility

  • Sustainable, long-term job creation, in factories and supply chain, avoiding the boom and bust cycle associated with large one-off infrastructure projects

  • Multi-use electricity and/or heat output adaptable to on and off-grid applications

  • Lower capital cost, risk and build time enables investment by commercial entities on a standard debt and equity basis

  • Repeatable, low-cost, factory product rather than large one-off infrastructure project

  • Low completion risk given standardised manufactured nature of the product and repeatable turnkey solution