Extract from Lords debate on Climate Change - Feb 6
Friday, 7 February 2020 08:20
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Lord Broers (CB):...Small and modular nuclear reactors—SMRs—also
offer the opportunity for lower costs in the right timescale, and
the Government have now offered modest support for their
development. Rolls-Royce has for decades built SMRs for
submarines and heads a consortium that is proposing to build SMRs
that can be located on one-10th of the area needed for large-scale
reactors. In addition, they can be built in factories with robotic
assembly, and the reactor vessel can...Request free trial
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