Westinghouse announced today that its Springfields nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the UK has “reached the requirements necessary” for manufacturing fuel assemblies for its Small Modular Reactor (SMR). Last year the company proposed a partnership with the UK government to deploy SMR technology. The company said the Springfields plant achieved this “crucial milestone” following a “readiness assessment” based upon fabrication data for two proprietary SMR fuel assemblies produced at its fuel fabrication plant in Columbia, South Carolina, USA. Westinghouse Springfields managing director Mick Gornall said, “Manufacturing Westinghouse SMR fuel at Springfields will secure the future of a strategic national asset of nuclear fuel manufacturing capability and safeguard highly skilled and paid UK jobs – something that no other SMR technology provider currently offers.”
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