UK small nuclear competition: Rolls Royce in, Bill Gates snubbed
UK small nuclear competition: Rolls Royce in, Bill Gates snubbed
Bill Gates' nuclear reactor design company Terrapower has not been shortlisted for the next round of the government's competition for SMRs.
Good. Now let's put the tender to a BRITISH company. British pound paying a British company, with British jobs and tried and tested British engineers. Did I mention British?
The only problem is it never seems to be the most talented company who wins in these situations, its the company with the closest ties to a Conservative MP
In this case though, RR does have the experience and means to do it. They already make SMRs for submarines.
TerraPower, on the other hand, has limited experience, nothing production-ready has ever been made by them, and they've hit all kinds of issues in their relatively short past.
Plus of course the UK is going to go with RR over a company that in the past was trying to get close to the CCP and do data sharing/joint programmes.
Did you have one in mind?
Any one of the three British companies pitching.
Oh yeah, and fuck Bill Gates ya lizard
No one wants a BSOD in a nuclear reactor.
Just switch it on and off again
Great let's build 4 down south then abandon the 2 in the North due to soaring costs