Rolls-Royce SMR Chooses Norway’s Aker As Primary Module Partner, Begins Search For UK Factory Site

Partnership could help transform way nuclear projects are delivered

Rolls-Royce SMR Chooses Norway’s Aker As Primary Module Partner, Begins Search For UK Factory Site
Rolls-Royce SMR has been chosen as the preferred technology provider in the UK’s SMR competition. Courtesy Rolls-Royce SMR.

Small modular reactor (SMR) developer Rolls-Royce SMR has chosen Aker Solutions of Norway as its primary partner for the supply of non-nuclear parts for modules that will form part of the UK company’s nuclear plants.

The agreement will bring expertise from the oil and gas sector into nuclear for the first time, Rolls-Royce SMR said.

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