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Reports: Rolls-Royce looks to sell SMR subsidiary
Engineering company Rolls-Royce is considering the sale of its small modular reactor subsidiary to inject new funding into the company’s overall business plans, the Sunday Telegraph first reported Aug. 3.
The company is looking to raise hundreds of millions, with a current valuation of £1.6 billion ($2 billion), as it sets its sights on being the first to deploy SMRs in the United Kingdom. Rolls-Royce recently cleared step two of the U.K.’s generic design assessment (GDA)—a competition launched in 2023 to bring SMRs on line in the 2030s.
R. B. Pratt, J. D. Sease, W. H. Pechin, A. L. Lotts
Nuclear Technology | Volume 6 | Number 3 | March 1969 | Pages 241-255
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28313
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This report describes work concerning production of coated-particle fuels for use in high-temperature, gas-cooled reactors (HTGR's) and a coating system that has served as the basis for the design of a remotely operated recycle fuel fabrication system. We have demonstrated an ability to deposit low-and high-density pyrolytic carbon coatings having a variety of properties on a scale adequate to satisfy the proposed Thorium Uranium Recycle Facility production rate, 10 kg of heavy metal fuel per day. To do this, we have designated an engineering scale, 5-in.-i.d. fluidized bed coating furnace and its auxiliaries. Additionally, we have identified process controlling parameters and demonstrated their effect on inner- and outer-coating properties produced from acetylene, propane, and propylene. Specific coating properties controlled were density, thickness, anisotropy factor, coating rate, and deposition efficiency. Parameters identified include: bed temperature, gas purity, gas flux, inert-gas dilution, charge size, kernel composition, kernel size, and components configuration.