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Message par energy_isere » 23 avr. 2022, 21:40

Rolls-Royce a en projet un premier réacteur SMR pour un début de production en 2029 :
Rolls-Royce hopes for UK SMR online by 2029

19 April 2022

The chairman of Rolls-Royce SMR, Paul Stein, has told the Reuters news agency he hopes to get regulatory approval for its small modular reactor (SMR) design by mid-2024, with grid power able to be produced by 2029.

Reuters quoted Stein as saying that the regulatory part of the process had begun and “will likely complete in the middle of 2024 … we are trying to work with the UK Government, and others to get going now placing orders, so we can get power on grid by 2029".

The Rolls-Royce SMR design was accepted for Generic Design Assessment (GDA) review last month with the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy asking the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) along with the environment regulators for England and Wales to begin the process.

The Rolls-Royce SMR is a 470 MWe design based on a small pressurised water reactor.

GDA is a process carried out by the ONR, the Environment Agency (EA) and Natural Resources Wales to assess the safety, security, and environmental protection aspects of a nuclear power plant design that is intended to be deployed in Great Britain. Successful completion of the GDA culminates in the issue of a Design Acceptance Confirmation from the ONR and a Statement of Design Acceptability from the EA.

A Rolls-Royce-led UK SMR consortium aims to build 16 SMRs. The consortium - which includes Assystem, Atkins, BAM Nuttall, Jacobs, Laing O'Rourke, National Nuclear Laboratory, the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and TWI - aims to build up to 10 by 2035.

To minimise the construction phase of the programme, the UK SMR is fully modularised with the reactor, about 16 metres by 4 metres, able to be transported by road, rail or sea. Targeting a 500-day modular build, they say this concept minimises the onsite time and effort required to construct and build the plant, which Rolls-Royce said could fit on a site about the same size as five and half football pitches.

Earlier this month the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled a new Energy Security Strategy setting out plans for rapid expansion of nuclear power capacity, with eight new large reactors and SMRs helping to produce 24 GWe capacity by 2050, representing about 25% of the UK’s projected electricity demand.
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Message par energy_isere » 09 juil. 2022, 12:27

Rolls-Royce déclare avoir sélectionné 6 sites potentiels pour implanter la première usine de fabrication de leur SMR.

Rolls-Royce narrows search for site of first SMR factory

04 July 2022

Rolls-Royce SMR has shortlisted six potential locations in the UK for the first of three factories for the manufacture of its small modular reactor (SMR) power plants. The first plant will produce the vessels for the 470 MWe pressurised water reactor.


The company said the shortlist was selected against a clear set of criteria, picked from over 100 submissions from local enterprise partnerships and development agencies - suggesting sites across the UK where the Rolls-Royce SMR factories could be located.

The locations of the final shortlisted sites for the first plant are: Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, Richmond in North Yorkshire, Deeside in Wales, Ferrybridge in Yorkshire, Stallingborough in Lincolnshire and Carlisle in Cumbria.

Rolls-Royce SMR noted the first plant will be the largest and most complex facility of the three. "Therefore, it is important to take decisions early to enable its deployment," it said. "Construction will begin once Rolls-Royce SMR receives the go-ahead to build a fleet of SMRs in the UK."

"I would like to thank everyone who sent in a submission suggesting locations in their region for the first Rolls-Royce SMR factory," said Rolls-Royce SMR CEO Tom Samson. "The response was fantastic and shows the ambition and appetite of the UK to build and operate a fleet of SMRs which will provide affordable, low-carbon electricity for generations to come.

"The final location will come from the shortlist and will result in significant investment, long-term high-skilled jobs and will support the UK government's aspirations for levelling-up. Today's announcement is another example of the pace of our project and why Rolls-Royce SMR is the UK's domestic nuclear energy champion."

The other two factories will manufacture civils modules and mechanical electrical and plumbing modules - which will be transported to sites and assembled into a nuclear power plant.

"These locations will be selected from the full list of submissions - giving all locations further opportunities to host a Rolls-Royce SMR factory," the company noted.

The Rolls-Royce SMR design was accepted for Generic Design Assessment review in March with the UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy asking the Office for Nuclear Regulation along with the environment regulators for England and Wales to begin the process.

A Rolls-Royce-led UK SMR consortium aims to build 16 SMRs. The consortium - which includes Assystem, Atkins, BAM Nuttall, Jacobs, Laing O'Rourke, National Nuclear Laboratory, the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and TWI - aims to complete its first unit in the early 2030s and build up to 10 by 2035.

To minimise the construction phase of the programme, the UK SMR is fully modularised with the reactor, about 16 metres by 4 metres, able to be transported by road, rail or sea. Targeting a 500-day modular build, the consortium says this concept minimises the onsite time and effort required to construct and build the plant.

Rolls-Royce SMR says about 90% of manufacturing and assembly activities will be carried out in factory conditions, helping to maintain an extremely high-quality product, to reduce onsite disruption and to support international roll out.
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Message par energy_isere » 27 août 2022, 14:39

Intérêt pour un tel SMR aux Pays Bas.
Collaboration for Rolls-Royce SMR deployment in the Netherlands

25 August 2022

Rolls-Royce SMR has signed an exclusive agreement with Dutch nuclear energy development company ULC-Energy BV to collaborate on the deployment of Rolls-Royce small modular reactor (SMR) power plants in the Netherlands.

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Message par energy_isere » 17 sept. 2022, 14:58

suite du post au dessus.
Constellation to help Dutch Rolls-Royce SMR deployment
15 September 2022

Dutch nuclear energy development company ULC-Energy BV has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US utility Constellation to support the deployment of a fleet of Rolls-Royce small modular reactors (SMRs) in the Netherlands.

Constellation - which is a minority shareholder in Rolls-Royce SMR Limited - operates 21 reactors at 12 nuclear power plant sites in the USA.

In November 2020, Rolls-Royce and US utility Exelon Generation signed an MoU to pursue the potential for Exelon to operate SMRs both in the UK and internationally. Earlier this year, Exelon Generation separated its regulated utility and competitive energy businesses. Exelon became the USA's largest transmission and distribution utility serving some 10 million customers across seven different regulatory jurisdictions. Its competitive energy business was named Constellation - the same name as the company which Exelon merged with in 2012 - which became the largest producer of carbon-free electricity in the country.

"Constellation is committed to a carbon-free future and has for many years supported nuclear developers in the United States and internationally," said Ralph Hunter, president of Constellation Generation Development LLC. "The Constellation Nuclear Management Model is widely regarded within the industry as a benchmark for world-class nuclear power operations, and we are excited with the opportunity to work with both ULC-Energy and Rolls-Royce SMR to ensure the safe and reliable development and operation of Rolls-Royce SMRs in the Netherlands."

"Constellation will bring deep operational experience to ULC-Energy allowing ULC-Energy to deliver a complete offering to its stakeholders in the Netherlands," added ULC-Energy Managing Director Dirk Rabelink. "Having worked closely with Constellation, and its predecessor Exelon Generation since 2005, I am confident that our cooperation will be fruitful."

Last month, Rolls-Royce SMR signed an exclusive agreement with ULC-Energy to collaborate on the deployment of Rolls-Royce SMR power plants in the Netherlands.

ULC-Energy - established in 2021 and based in Amsterdam - aims to accelerate decarbonisation in the Netherlands by developing nuclear energy projects that efficiently integrate with residential and industrial energy networks in the country.

In December, the Netherlands' new coalition government placed nuclear power at the heart of its climate and energy policy. It said it would provide financial support to the goal of building new nuclear power plants. It outlined EUR50 million (USD50 million) for this in 2023, EUR200 million in 2024 and EUR250 million in 2025. It anticipated that cumulative support for new nuclear would reach EUR5 billion by 2030, while not assuming the power plants would be online by that time.

The Rolls-Royce SMR is a 470 MWe design based on a small pressurised water reactor. It will provide consistent baseload generation for at least 60 years. 90% of the SMR - about 16 metres by 4 metres - will be built in factory conditions, limiting on-site activity primarily to assembly of pre-fabricated, pre-tested, modules which significantly reduces project risk and has the potential to drastically shorten build schedules.

The design was accepted for Generic Design Assessment review in March this year with the UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy asking the UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation along with the environment regulators for England and Wales to begin the process.
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Message par energy_isere » 22 oct. 2022, 13:37

Two sites added to Rolls-Royce SMR's UK factory shortlist

21 October 2022

Rolls-Royce SMR is carrying out site visits of the eight locations now in the running to host its first factory for small modular reactors.


In July the company announced six potential locations for the factory, saying the shortlist was selected against a clear set of criteria, picked from more than 100 submissions from local enterprise partnerships and development agencies. They were: Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, Richmond in North Yorkshire, Deeside in Wales, Ferrybridge in Yorkshire, Stallingborough in Lincolnshire and Carlisle in Cumbria.

Two more locations - Shotton, Deeside, in North Wales and Teesworks, Redcar, in north east England - have now been added after the sites met the shortlist criteria for the first of three expected factories in the UK, which will produce the vessels for the 470 MWe pressurised water reactor.

Rolls-Royce SMR's chief operating officer David White is to oversee the construction of the factories which will be needed to construct the planned fleet of SMRs, each capable of generating the same amount of electricity as about 150 onshore wind turbines, and enough to power a million homes.

All the potential sites are to be visited over the next six weeks ahead of the next stage of the site-selection process.

White said: "The overwhelmingly positive response, resulting in more potential sites than we might have hoped for, means we have more information to assess but is vitally important in helping us select the right locations for our factory."

The Rolls-Royce SMR design was accepted for Generic Design Assessment review in March with the UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy asking the Office for Nuclear Regulation along with the environment regulators for England and Wales to begin the process.

To minimise the construction phase of the programme, the Rolls-Royce SMR is fully modularised with the reactor, about 16 metres by 4 metres, able to be transported by road, rail or sea. Targeting a 500-day modular build, the firm says this concept minimises the onsite time and effort required to construct and build the plant, with about 90% of manufacturing and assembly activities carried out in factory conditions.
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Message par energy_isere » 12 nov. 2022, 15:09

Projet de SMR Rolls-Royce à Sellafield :
Cumbrian development company chooses Rolls-Royce SMR

11 November 2022

Newly-established development firm Solway Community Power Company has selected the Rolls-Royce small modular reactor (SMR) for deployment in West Cumbria, England. Earlier this week, it was announced that four sites in the UK, including land near the Sellafield site in Cumbria, have been prioritised to deploy the first in a fleet of Rolls-Royce SMR power plants.
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Message par energy_isere » 21 mars 2023, 20:16

Nucléaire : discussions avec Rolls-Royce pour des réacteurs SMR en Suède et Finlande

AFP le 21 mars 2023

L'énergéticien finlandais Fortum a annoncé mardi des discussions avec le groupe britannique Rolls-Royce pour construire des petits réacteurs nucléaires SMR en Suède et en Finlande.

Fortum et la filiale SMR de Rolls-Royce fondée fin 2021 "vont explorer conjointement les possibilités pour déployer de petits réacteurs modulaires (SMR) en Finlande et en Suède".

Rolls-Royce cherche à construire son premier SMR d'une puissance de 470 mégawatts et d'une durée de vie de 60 ans, supposé être plus rapide à construire qu'un réacteur nucléaire plus grand.

L'annonce intervient après le retour de la droite au pouvoir en Suède à l'automne dernier, avec la volonté de construire au moins deux nouveaux réacteurs dans le pays nordique, qui en exploite six.

En Finlande, un réacteur EPR construit par le groupe français Areva s'apprête à entrer en service normal dans les semaines à venir après un chantier interminable de près de 18 ans.

Mais un projet de réacteur nucléaire construit par le russe Rosatom vient d'être abandonné à la suite de l'invasion de l'Ukraine, laissant en suspens la question d'un autre nouveau réacteur.

Un accord similaire à celui de Rolls-Royce avait été annoncé par Fortum avec EDF en décembre dernier, avec des discussions à la fois pour des EPR et des SMR.

Le groupe public suédois Vattenfall examine lui aussi la construction de SMR en Suède.

Se voulant l'avenir du nucléaire civil, les réacteurs SMR ou AMR (réacteurs modulaires avancés) comptent environ 70 à 80 projets à travers le monde.

Le premier au monde, sous la forme d'un navire-centrale flottant, avait été mis en service dans l'Extreme-Orient russe en 2019.
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Message par energy_isere » 04 nov. 2023, 12:23

Partners to study hydrogen production using Rolls-Royce SMR

03 November 2023

ULC-Energy of the Netherlands has signed an agreement with Denmark's Topsoe and the UK's Rolls-Royce SMR to jointly investigate the production of hydrogen using Topsoe's Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC) technology with both electricity and heat produced by a Rolls-Royce SMR nuclear power plant.


The joint investigation will include a valuation of the operational flexibility of the Rolls-Royce SMR in combination with Topsoe's proprietary SOEC technology in the future energy market.

According to ULC-Energy, nuclear energy combined with SOEC technology has the potential to produce clean hydrogen more cheaply than alternative electrolysis processes. It says this is because: the electrolysis takes place at a high temperature, which means that less electricity is needed to produce hydrogen; nuclear power plants can produce energy on average up to 95% of the time, significantly higher than alternative variable energy sources; and nuclear energy can supply heat as well as electricity. By using heat directly, energy losses in the steam turbine can be avoided thus increasing the effective energy capacity of the nuclear power plant above its electric power rating.

Furthermore, the Rolls-Royce SMR nuclear power plant can, when required, switch to deliver power to the grid, providing back-up to variable power sources when these sources are not available. ULC-Energy said this is expected to be a competitive solution compared with alternatives, like long-duration energy storage solutions or hydrogen combustion for electricity generation.

"Hydrogen will play an increasingly important role in balancing future energy markets," said ULC-Energy CEO Dirk Rabelink. "We expect nuclear energy, especially in combination with high temperature electrolysis, to be able to produce zero-emission hydrogen competitively on a stand-alone basis. Additional value associated with the operational flexibility will further enhance the business case for this solution."

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