Die USA sind „enttäuscht“ darüber, dass Rolls-Royce die ersten kleinen modularen Reaktoren in Großbritannien bauen wird
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/us-disappointed-that-rolls-royce-will-build-uks-first-small-modular-reactors
Von Just-Sale-7015
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Good. There needs to be a whole lot of „US disappointment“ going forward.
Why would we trust the US with a massive project like this?
>The Trump administration last month signed an $80bn (£61bn) deal with Westinghouse, which had been struggling financially, to build several of the same larger reactors proposed at Wylfa. Under the terms of that deal, the Trump administration could end up taking a stake in the company.
No thanks.
Trump likes shrieking about ’national security‘ for his decision making. The UK should simply say the same and tell Westinghouse to jog on before they go bankrupt (again).
People keep missing the major point in all this: No one’s actually made a working SMR yet. And several companies that got huge US subsidies to do so went out of business when it came out that they couldn’t make them without drastically jacking up the individual price by something like 60%.
American pedo loving fascist can go to hell
Oh diddums…
UK prefers UK company over US company to build a part of UK energy infrastructure.. Too radical for the US?
TIL Reddit or our r/Europe moderation team doesn’t like archiving services, not even from the good ol’wayback machine, and automoderates the comments to oblivion when we try to use them to bypass paywalls or cookie tracking schemes. Shame!
Canada has started construction of a group of 3 small modular reactors in the province of Ontario. They have their own nuclear technology and I found this in an article in the Canadian press:
>Officials told reporters that roughly 80 per cent of the SMR project spending will go to Ontario companies, another 15 per cent to European and Asian firms, and just five per cent to companies in the U.S., primarily for GE Hitachi’s design and development of the power plant model. Construction permits have already been granted and site work commenced.
I think everyone wants to work on this tech although I wonder if fusion will eventually supplant it.
He thinks he can tarif the world, but he’s tariffing the U.S. really and proving how unrealiable the U.S. is as a trade partner.
Short term he can win, but long term, every country will find new reliable partners eventually and not risk any business dealings than can have tariffs at levels never seen before, and changing wether someone made him big sad
Well this is interesting. Canada is building SMRs a stones throw from the US and they haven’t said squat. Why bitch about the UK across an ocean? The Trump admin is run by complete morons who have no clue how this planet operates.
Good, and the US can shove that disappointment up its arse. After all it said it wanted us to be less dependant on them, this is what it looks like. Hope we patent the fuck out off it so hard the US has to pay or beg for it.
hahaha nothing says sloppy like ameican manufacturing, good choice to keep it all British
Let’s see now, how can I put this diplomatically?
[THE EXPLOITED – FUCK THE USA](https://youtu.be/HPfeTBwrGAw)
Do one Yanks.
There might be no way around disappointing the disappointers.
Good on the UK.
Innovation is not necessarily American in life… The proof once again
I mean Rolls Royce is the most suitable company to build SMRs, they already know how to build small reactors with their submarine contract.
I’m sick and tired of dictators (Trump and Putin) dictating what we in Britain should and should not do. They are doing this for their interests not ours, whilst at the same time, both nations are failing.
Would they rather have Boing do it ?
As a “next door” neighbor to the UK, I’d prefer something that doesn’t blow up. I still remember Tjernobyl.
Wait until the UK’s subs start using their own missiles and not Lockheed Martin’s; though, after the Dreadnoughts, I guess.
Mc Tariffic just expects every country and person to simply empty their pockets directly into his hand…
„Europe needs to be more independent!“
„But not like this!“
Homer Simpon’s comically inflated ineptitude was supposed to be satire, but the GOP created a monster within their base.
With the way America is backsliding into the sort of shit humanity really should have abandoned after WWII, I think that it’s wise to not make deals with them anymore. Europe needs sovereignty from the USA, not dependence on them.
Yes, one of the jobs of an Ambassador is to support companies trying to sell their products.
Just flip it around: What would you say to a newspaper story that the British Ambassador to the United States was „disappointed“ that the US chose to purchase jet engines from General Electric rather than Rolls-Royce?