{"id":448973,"date":"2021-11-10T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T04:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448973"},"modified":"2021-11-10T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T06:19:57","slug":"rolls-royce-launches-nuclear-reactor-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rolls-royce-launches-nuclear-reactor-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce launches nuclear reactor business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce on Tuesday launched plans to build small low-cost nuclear reactors to help cut the nation&#8217;s carbon emissions. <\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Britain pushes ahead with large-scale projects, including Hinkley Point C which will be the nation&#8217;s first new nuclear plant for a generation.<\/p>\n<p>Rolls-Royce said it had created a new Small Modular Reactor (SMR) division after clinching a cash injection of \u00a3405 million ($547 million, 473 million euros). <\/p>\n<p>SMR reactors are far cheaper to build than large-scale nuclear plants because the vast majority of manufacturing and assembly is done in a factory, before transporting to the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce on Tuesday launched plans to build small low-cost nuclear reactors to help cut the nation&#8217;s carbon emissions. The news comes as Britain pushes ahead with large-scale projects, including Hinkley Point C which will be the nation&#8217;s first new nuclear plant for a generation. Rolls-Royce said it had created a new Small Modular Reactor (SMR) division after clinching a cash injection of \u00a3405 million ($547 million, 473 million euros). SMR reactors are far cheaper to build than large-scale nuclear plants because the vast majority of manufacturing and assembly is done in a factory, before transporting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}