Sweden Awards Rolls-Royce a Multimillion Dollar Contract to Build Three Modular Reactors

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After more than 40 years without new reactors, Sweden has taken a concrete step towards more nuclear power. Vattenfall has chosen British Rolls-Royce as the supplier of three SMR reactors at Ringhals. Together, they will produce around 12 terawatt hours of electricity per year, corresponding to just over seven percent of Sweden's electricity production today.

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The British technology group Rolls-Royce is not necessarily known for nuclear power plants, but rather for luxury cars. The three mini nuclear power plants, which the company is now planning in Sweden, are correspondingly "luxurious": they are larger than usual and therefore also more expensive. Compared to the classic meilers, however, they still save a lot of money while they bring a high performance. Nuclear power comes back in the mini varia…

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Sweden put an end to four decades of atomic hibernation by entrusting its electric future to British engineering. It is a historic turnaround for the Scandinavian nation.

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There are no Small Modular Reactors (SMR) in Europe yet. Rolls Royce is scheduled to build 3 of these new nuclear power plants in Sweden.

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Sweden has not installed any reactors in fifty years, but today it chooses to revive this energy with a particular technology, that of the SMRs, with the help of an iconic British car manufacturer.