NIA responds to Rolls-Royce SMR announcing key steam turbine components to be manufactured in the UK

In response to Rolls-Royce SMR announcing that key steam turbine components for Gwyndod will be manufactured in the UK by Siemens Energy’s Newcastle site (link), Tom Greatrex, Chief Executive of the Nuclear Industry Association, said:

“This is what reindustrialisation looks like: a vital clean energy project reviving our old manufacturing capabilities to provide good, skilled jobs where we need them. The announcement is a real vote of confidence in industrial Britain and shows what SMRs and nuclear projects can deliver for this country.”