RE:UK Nuclear Growth NewsThe UK (my home country btw) will very likely go the route of small modular reactors. Rolls Royce and a few other companies are pushing these heaviliy and they fit the UK market very well. Units of up to 300MW can be made in a factory and shipped to site and the construction time is 2 to 3 years not 10 years for big nuclear construction.<br /> They are far cheaper to make than the "assemble on site" designs we have seen in the past. One design I have seen shows a circular arrangement of 8 pods each with a 150 to 300 MW plant in each pod. As more power is required a new pod is dropped into the hole in the ground and connected up to the existing control room...plug and play so to speak.<br /> <br /> So, inherently safe, factory manufactured, incrementally added electrical supply and far far cheaper to make.<br /> <br /> The big units like Olkulito and Flamanville are history. Far too expensive and too much capital at risk.<br /> <br /> Rolls Royce will be able to make them like aircraft engines and ship them to where they are needed....mass produced nuclear plants at long last. No need for collossal capital borrowing to finance them Cheap to operate.<br /> <br /> Nuclear power costs will be cut by at least 70%. No need for thousands of tons of shielding concrete. They are in the ground to the earth does that job.<br /> <br /> It is the way the nuclear industry will go. Safer cheaper cleaner...but they all still need Uranium.<br /> <br /> Malcolm