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Ukraine can decentralise its power supply network by building a series of "mini nuclear power plants", Rolls Royce believes.

Last month, US nuclear developer NuScale Power announced it was cancelling its first-of-a-kind small modular reactor (SMR) project in Idaho, in what is widely being seen as a blow to the nascent technology. SMRs have been hailed as one of the best hopes for achieving net zero, and while the concept is great on paper – after all small reactors have been powering nuclear submarines and ships for decades – there are real questions over its deliverability in practice.

It was a policy that was bound to send a shiver through the policymaking community. 

The advent of AUKUS, with its inane yet provocative promise of nuclear-powered submarines for the Royal Australian Navy, adds yet another, complicating dimension to this fact.

India is expanding its renewable energy capacity at a hectic pace of 50 GW a year, which is among the fastest in the world and aims to achieve a 45 per cent cut in emissions by 2030, which will exceed the target of 43 per cent fixed at the ...