{"id":6552,"date":"2019-01-21T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/rolls-royce-vies-for-uk-nuclear-role\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T14:37:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T14:37:18","slug":"rolls-royce-vies-for-uk-nuclear-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/rolls-royce-vies-for-uk-nuclear-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce vies for UK nuclear role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rolls-Royce has confirmed it is in talks with Chinese state-run firm China General Nuclear (CGN) over providing essential systems for a new power station in the UK.<\/p>\n

The UK engineering company makes instrumentation and control systems for nuclear reactors. <\/p>\n

The plant will be based at Bradwell, on the River Blackwater in Essex.<\/p>\n

The project is one of three new nuclear schemes in this country in which CGN is centrally involved. <\/p>\n

Rolls-Royce already has an agreement with CGN’s subsidiary, CTEC, to develop and sell reactor control systems for selected projects in China and on international markets.<\/p>\n

Nuclear strategy<\/h2>\n

The planned new “Bradwell B” power station is a major component of the government’s nuclear strategy. The country’s existing reactors are ageing and all of them are due to shut down by 2035.<\/p>\n

The Essex site is already home to an obsolete nuclear power station, which closed in 2002. <\/p>\n

Its replacement was one of six new nuclear plants which were originally lined up – under plans set out by the coalition government in 2013 – to help meet energy needs in decades to come.<\/p>\n

However, three of those projects have since fallen by the wayside. <\/p>\n

One, at Moorside in Cumbria, was in effect cancelled in November after its backer, the Japanese firm Toshiba, decided to wind up its nuclear business in the UK.<\/p>\n

Two more, at Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey and at Oldbury in south Gloucestershire<\/a>, were put on hold last week. Their main backer was another Japanese firm, Hitachi. <\/p>\n

It said it had failed to reach an agreement with the government on how the projects would be funded.<\/p>\n

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CGN is now playing a central role in all three remaining projects.<\/p>\n

It is providing one third of the funding for the new Hinkley Point C, which is currently being built by the French firm EDF.<\/p>\n

At Bradwell, it will be the lead contractor, with EDF becoming the junior partner. It plans to use its own HPR1000 reactor design. <\/p>\n

The two are also expected to collaborate on another project, at Sizewell, in Suffolk.<\/p>\n

Rolls-Royce benefits<\/h2>\n

For Rolls-Royce, the talks represent an opportunity to expand its relationship with CGN and CTEC.<\/p>\n

Its instrumentation and controls business, based in the French city of Grenoble, supplies systems used in reactors around the world, including a large number in China.<\/p>\n

It already acts as a supplier to CGN, but under an agreement reached last year, it plans to work more closely with the Chinese giant in developing the technology itself. <\/p>\n

But the extent of CGN’s involvement in the British nuclear sector has attracted criticism from politicians and security analysts, who are worried about its links with the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

There are concerns that essential infrastructure could be left open to cyber-attacks or that technology could be stolen. <\/p>\n

Last year, a leading US security official reportedly warned the government<\/a> against developing a close relationship with Chinese contractors, on the grounds that civil nuclear technology was being adapted for military use.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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