Teesside has been chosen as the site of the UK’s first privately operated nuclear power site – aiming to produce energy from small reactors within ten years.
A company called Community Nuclear Power has announced its first SMR (Small Modular Reactors) project will be on part of the North Tees Complex, an industrial estate of more than 540 acres of former ICI land, led by founder Ian Hunter which is already home to the likes of BOC and Sabic.
SMRs are nuclear reactors generally 300 MWe equivalent or less, designed with modular factory fabrication, which means they can be produced much more quickly.
There had been reports that Rolls Royce SMRs might be coming to Teesside, but CNP will be using AP300s built by US giant Westinghouse, recently taken over by Brookfield, owner of PD Ports.
Teesside site chosen for breakthrough nuclear power project | The Northern Echo
