Power Generation News – Early April 2026
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Rolls-Royce SMR and Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N) have signed a contract that enables work to start immediately on the delivery of three Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) at Wylfa, on the coast of Ynys Môn (Anglesey) in North Wales.
In November 2025, the UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, announced that Wylfa will host the UK’s first SMRs. This latest agreement allows work to start on-site, through a firm contract allowing Rolls-Royce SMR to develop its site-specific design and order critical components from the supply chain. It also gives the certainty required to ramp up its recruitment programme in order to execute this work and successfully deliver the initial three units.
Chris Cholerton, Rolls-Royce SMR Chief Executive, said: “This contract unlocks the delivery of our first three units at Wylfa and is a tangible example of the government’s ‘golden age’ of new nuclear being delivered successfully with British technology.”
Sourced from The Manufacturer
