WHEN IS AUSTRALIA GOING TO APPROVE SMR’S FOR ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AS WELL AS SUBMARINES?

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Rolls-Royce SMR has won a “multi-billion pound” contract to build three small modular nuclear reactors for Sweden, marking a major step in the British engineering group’s ambition to become a leading supplier of SMR technology in Europe.

Following a rigorous selection process that started in 2022, UK engineering giant Rolls-Royce’s nuclear division, Rolls-Royce SMR, won the contract to build nuclear reactors for Sweden. As part of the deal, the group, selected by Videberg Kraft as its partner, will deliver three Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) to Sweden’s west coast, at the Värö Peninsula. The partnership with utility Vattenfall and developer Kärnfull Next is seen as one of the most advanced opportunities for deployment outside of the UK.

The current announcement follows another deal in April this year, when Rolls-Royce SMR signed a contract with the Czech CEZ Group to advance work on the Czech Republic’s first Small Modular Reactor (SMR). The firm also sealed a deal with Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N) for the design and delivery of the first small modular reactors (SMRs) in the UK.

In Germany Chancellor Merz announced that “nuclear power plants are to be built,” and “all the necessary documents have been exchanged” to begin construction on new nuclear power plants, which will likely be put on the old sites. In Merz’s speech, he said the heart of the issue is that Germany’s power industry is too heavily reliant on imports from other countries.

Germany’s western neighbor, France, has dominated Europe’s nuclear power industry since the mid-1980s. Its 57 operating reactors fulfill 70% of the country’s energy needs, and France sells $3.5 billion, of nuclear energy annually to other countries. Currently, France is building six new reactors and considering another eight.

Meanwhile, as of early 2026, China has 59 operating nuclear reactors with 37 more under construction, the World Nuclear Association reported. The country’s operable nuclear capacity shot up in the 2010s, and new growth has since levelled off slightly.

The U.S. currently has 94 operating nuclear reactors — the most of any country. But without expansion, China will take its title.

The European Commission considers small modular reactors (SMRs) to be a promising low-carbon technology that could help support the bloc’s clean energy and energy security goals. In order to remove regulatory barriers, the EU’s SMR strategy was adopted in March 2026 to accelerate the development and deployment of the technology across Europe.

SMRs are smaller than conventional nuclear power plants, typically generating between 20 and 300 megawatts of electricity. At the upper end of that range, a reactor could produce around 7.2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per day — enough to power hundreds of thousands of homes.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that more than 1,000 small modular reactors could be deployed worldwide by 2050 under a supportive policy scenario, requiring cumulative investment of around $670bn (€577bn).

On Thursday June 18th 2026 Switzerland’s lower house voted to lift its nuclear-plant ban. It is about time Australia also lifted its ban.. It’s crazy, we will be exporting more and more uranium to power SMR’s in other countries but not using this excellent power source here.

I am confident that both SMR’s and Nuclear Fusion will be used as power sources in Jesus coming Millennial Kingdom so we should get on board now.

SWEDEN HAS APPROVED ROLLS ROYCE FOR A FLEET OF SMALL MODULAR NUCLEAR REACTORS

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Rolls-Royce SMR was successful in the Swedish nuclear selection process 12th June 2024. It has won a place on Vattenfall’s shortlist of just two SMR companies competing to potentially deploy a fleet of small modular reactors (SMRs) in Sweden.

Vattenfall, the Swedish multinational power company, has announced the shortlist of two SMR vendors as part of its plans to meet the rising electricity demand, adding nuclear capacity and helping Sweden achieve its goal of creating a fossil-free economy by 2045. The other successful SMR was GE Hitachi’s BWRX-300.

This selection follows a thorough assessment process in which Rolls-Royce SMR had the opportunity to present a fundamentally different approach to building nuclear projects and a modularisation strategy focused on risk reduction to Vattenfall, an experienced and technically respected energy utility.

Rolls-Royce SMR CEO, Chris Cholerton, said: “We are delighted to be one of the two SMR technologies selected by Vattenfall for further evaluation in Sweden. Success in reaching the final two, in such a fiercely competitive process, reflects the benefits of our integrated power station design, our approach to modularisation, and our use of proven nuclear technology.

“Rolls-Royce SMR is the fastest and most affordable way of bringing new nuclear power online and we are excited to work with utilities and industrial customers around the globe, to unlock sustainable sources of low-cost, low-carbon electricity for decades to come.”

Vattenfall’s focus will be deployment at the Ringhals nuclear site with a project that, at the earliest, is operational in the first half of the 2030s, with assessments for SMR and large-scale reactors ongoing.

Sweden has said it needs an additional 100-250 TWh of electricity production over the next 25 years and Vattenfall is poised to play a critical role in the country’s energy transition, including integrating new nuclear capacity into the energy mix.

Rolls-Royce SMR is on track to complete Step 2 and immediately enter Step 3 of the Generic Design Assessment by the UK nuclear industry’s independent regulators this summer. This will be the most important regulatory milestone to date – confirming Rolls-Royce SMR’s first-mover advantage as the leading technology in Europe.