{"id":67096,"date":"2019-11-11T09:44:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=67096"},"modified":"2019-11-11T09:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:44:39","slug":"design-nuclear-power-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/design-nuclear-power-station\/67096\/","title":{"rendered":"Key industry players to design nuclear power station"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Research and Innovation<\/a> (UKRI) has provided initial match funding of \u00a318m for a Rolls-Royce-led consortium to develop a Small Modular Reactor designed and manufactured in the UK<\/h2>\n<p>The consortium, which comprises Assystem, BAM Nuttall, Laing O\u2019Rourke, National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), Rolls-Royce, Atkins, Wood, The Welding Institute and Nuclear AMRC, has been working on a design for the plants for four years. The Small Modular Reactor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/products-and-services\/nuclear\/small-modular-reactors.aspx#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SMR<\/a>) will be capable of producing cost-effective low carbon electricity and creating significant export opportunities for UK businesses.<\/p>\n<p>An initial \u00a336m joint public and private investment has already been made to the development programme and will enable the government to reach it\u2019s 2050 net zero-carbon target with 16 power stations planned by this date.<\/p>\n<p>The components for the power station will be manufactured in sections in regional UK factories before being transported to existing nuclear sites for rapid assembly inside a weatherproof canopy. This will reduce costs by avoiding weather disruptions and secures gradual efficiency savings by using streamlined and standardised manufacturing processes for its components.<\/p>\n<p>Laing O\u2019Rourke\u2019s partnership and innovation leader, Adam Locke, said: \u201cThis is a great milestone to achieve after many years of collaboration; building on previous award-winning research into applying DfMA to nuclear, combined with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/tunnelling-hinkley-point\/63524\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">experience at Hinkley<\/a>, and manufacturing capability positions us uniquely to help achieve this goal of low-cost nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to working with our partners to develop our approach to the next stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has provided initial match funding of \u00a318m for a Rolls-Royce-led consortium to develop a Small Modular Reactor designed and manufactured in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[693,676,430,673,279,276,620,916,627],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news","7":"tag-climate-change","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-energy-efficiency","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-laing-orourke","14":"tag-modern-methods-of-construction","15":"tag-modular-construction"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Key industry players to design nuclear power station<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UKRI has provided initial match funding of \u00a318m for a Rolls-Royce-led consortium to develop a Small Modular Reactor designed and manufactured in the UK\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/design-nuclear-power-station\/67096\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Key industry players to design nuclear power station\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The UKRI has provided initial match funding of \u00a318m for a Rolls-Royce-led consortium to develop a Small Modular Reactor designed and manufactured in the UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/design-nuclear-power-station\/67096\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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