Rolls-Royce has identified four potential sites to develop its new generation of mini-nuclear power stations.
The engineering giant is considering land near the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, Oldbury in South Gloucestershire as well as Welsh locations Trawsfynydd and Wylfa in Anglesey, for its small modular nuclear reactors (SMR).
The plants are around a tenth of the size of a conventional nuclear plant, 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 thousands of jobs.
