"The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) will create a "pipeline" of projects meeting readiness criteria, offering a "concierge-style" service to help the developers navigate UK planning, regulations, and secure private investment. DESNZ says emerging nuclear technologies like small modular reactors (SMRs) can be prefabricated in factories, enabling faster, cheaper assembly using skilled jobs across multiple regions. These reactors can provide clean energy to the grid or directly to industrial users, it claims."
"SMRs, as Reg readers likely know, are newfangled designs with a power capacity of up to about 300 MW per unit, about a third of the generating capacity of traditional atomic reactors. However, the novelty of these designs means they probably won't be pumping out the megawatts any time soon. As Omdia principal analyst Alan Howard told us last year, SMR trials are on the horizon, but commercial viability is not expected until the 2030s."
The British government launched the Advanced Nuclear Framework to attract private investment in next-generation nuclear technology for factories and datacenters. The framework aims to accelerate development of advanced modular reactors to power AI infrastructure and provide clean energy for economic growth. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero will create a pipeline of projects meeting readiness criteria and offer a concierge-style service to help developers navigate UK planning, regulations, and secure private investment. DESNZ highlights that small modular reactors (SMRs) can be prefabricated in factories for faster, cheaper assembly, creating skilled jobs across regions and supplying power to grids or industrial users.
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