The company has released a shortlist
An artist's impression of what the SMR power station could look like. Sites have been shortlisted for a new factory to supply the eventual power station.The factory will be around the size of three football pitches, valued at between £100m to £200m and is expected to create more than 200 permanent jobs.SMR power station which will have the capacity to generate 470MW of low carbon energy, equivalent to more than 150 onshore wind turbines and enough to power a million homes.
The shortlist was selected against a clear set of criteria, picked from over 100 submissions from Local Enterprise Partnerships and development agencies. Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: “This is fantastic news for Sunderland, North Yorkshire, Deeside, Lincolnshire and Carlisle which, if these SMRs go ahead, could be at the forefront of manufacturing components for this British-made tech.
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