Agreement ‘unlocks significant programme of work’ at site, says UK company

Rolls-Royce and Czech officials signed a contract on 24 April in Prague for the deployment of the UK-based company’s SMRs at the Temelín site. Image courtesy Rolls-Royce.
UK small modular reactor (SMR) developer Rolls-Royce SMR and Czech state energy company ČEZ Group have signed a contract that enables work to start on the eastern European nation’s first SMR programme at the Temelín nuclear site in the southwest of the country.
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