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Tees Valley has reached the final four in a competition to be the location for a factory that could create 4,000 jobs.

Could create up to four nuclear power plants a year

SMRs are nuclear power stations that have lower capacity than large-scale nuclear plants. They are in theory quicker and cheaper to deploy and their

The UK's Sheffield Forgemasters has been awarded accreditation by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as a supplier of heavy forgings and castings to the civil nuclear market. The company originally gained ASME accreditation as a Nuclear Material Organisation in 1992, but that had lapsed, with the lack of nuclear new-build in the following years.

Mott MacDonald has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Holtec Britain and Hyundai E&C to explore the delivery of Holtec’s Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology in the UK.

Great British Nuclear announces plans to secure sites at Wylfa and Oldbury to advance UK's nuclear revival.

GE Hitachi was one of six firms shortlisted late last year for government support to deliver a new wave of nuclear reactors, with the shortlist also

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has been awarded a GBP33.6 million (USD42.7 million) grant to support it in developing its BWRX-300 small modular reactor in the UK. The design will now enter the Generic Design Assessment process.

Great British Nuclear Chairman Simon Bowen sets out the ambitions and timescales of the UK's current competition to select small modular reactor technology - and also suggests there will be a wider range of nuclear energy sites in the years ahead.

A new roadmap commits the government to a fresh large-scale reactor as well as the novel smaller tech, and to making uranium fuel domestically.