{"id":64761,"date":"2026-06-17T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/64761\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:36:20","slug":"rolls-royce-smr-to-supply-swedens-first-new-nuclear-power-plant-in-over-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/64761\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce SMR to supply Sweden\u2019s first new nuclear power plant in over 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rolls-Royce SMR is based on a compact, three-loop pressurised water reactor designed to generate approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/2024\/07\/30\/small-modular-reactor-designs-approved-first-step-towards-uk-nuclear-power-expansion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">470MW of electrical power<\/a> \u2013 enough to power one million average households, or a city the size of Sheffield, for at least 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>Another advantage is that SMRs can be scaled up for larger demand. For instance, the site at Wylfa will initially host three SMR units, but GBE-N says it has the capacity to host up to eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rolls-Royce SMR is in the final stages of the UK regulatory process. Once this process is successfully completed, the ambition is to start construction, with the aim of Wylfa\u2019s three SMRs supplying power to the grid from the mid-2030s.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the first unit in Sweden is expected to enter operation in the mid-2030s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is another major endorsement of Rolls-Royce SMR\u2019s technology and a significant boost for Britain\u2019s nuclear export ambitions. Coming so soon after its selection by GBE-N, it underlines the growing international confidence in the technology and the strength of the British nuclear industry,\u201d said Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew nuclear projects like this will provide clean, reliable power for decades while supporting high-skilled jobs, industrial growth and energy security. As we move forward with deployment at Wylfa, this agreement shows that British nuclear expertise is not just attracting investment at home, but winning opportunities overseas too,\u201d added Greatrex.<\/p>\n<p>In another boost for the UK nuclear sector, Rolls-Royce and Japan\u2019s Atomic Energy Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/2026\/06\/15\/uk-offshore-wind-get-ps9bn-boost-japanese-investment-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">have signed a new agreement<\/a> with the UK National Nuclear Laboratory to develop next-generation nuclear technologies and to deepen their collaboration on fusion energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The latest video in our E+T Expert Engineering series explores SMRs and why miniaturising nuclear technology may prove that smaller is indeed better. Watch it below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rolls-Royce SMR is based on a compact, three-loop pressurised water reactor designed to generate approximately 470MW of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20731],"tags":[633,7537,159,11483,18,6166,1238,2517],"class_list":["post-64761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rolls-royce","tag-business","tag-decarbonisation","tag-electricity","tag-energy-sector","tag-news","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-rolls-royce","tag-sweden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116764775753198460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}