Rolls-Royce has offered to help the people of Ukraine rebuild the country by offering to one day supply it with small nuclear power stations.
The UK engineering giant, which is based in Derby, is investing hundreds of millions trying to develop factory-built, low cost, low carbon Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). Each reactor would be around a tenth of the size of a conventional nuclear plant, and generate enough power for around one million homes.
Rolls-Royce SMR has now signed an agreement with Energoatom, Ukraine’s national nuclear energy generating company, to work together in looking at future possibilities of deploying the reactors in the war-torn country.
