Rolls-Royce has said it has held “positive talks” on potentially establishing mini-nuclear power stations in Gloucestershire.
Senior representatives at the engineering giant have visited two sites at Oldbury and Berkley, which have been identified by the firm as possible locations to base some of its planned national fleet of small modular nuclear reactors (SMR).
The plants are around a tenth of the size of a conventional nuclear station, and could each generate enough power for around one million homes. The plans have already generated hundreds of millions of pounds of investment and are expected to create tens of thousands of jobs.
