Rolls-Royce SMR has been selected by Vattenfall as one of only two companies to reach the final stage in the process to identify Sweden’s nuclear technology partner.

After being shortlisted in 2024, Rolls-Royce SMR has progressed through a detailed assessment and will now work with Vattenfall through the final technology selection which could initially result in Rolls-Royce SMR delivering three SMRs.

Rolls-Royce, energy services provider Landmark and carbon dioxide specialist ASCO have teamed up to commission a 10-megawatt gas engine power plant with a carbon capture system in the United Kingdom. Located in Worksop in the East Midlands region, the first tankers carrying purified and liquefied CO2 have already been picked up from the site for use in the food industry to carbonate beverages such as beer and lemonade.

HS2 Ltd, the company building Britain’s new high-speed railway, has bolstered its investment in future talent by welcoming a new cohort of apprentices and graduates into the business.

This week, 21 new starters will begin a two-year programme of work on Britian’s biggest transport infrastructure project. Young people are welcomed into the business every year, and over the last eight years, HS2 Ltd has taken on 209 apprentices and 125 graduates.

Two carbon capture projects in North Wales and North West England have signed contracts, ready to begin construction and securing hundreds of jobs.

Nuclear battery developer Zeno Power is to make a "multi-million dollar" investment to get priority access to americium-241 supplies from Orano's la Hague recycling site in France.

US-based Zeno Power is currently developing americium-241-fuelled radioisotope power systems for the US space agency NASA to power lunar rovers, landers and potential infrastructure on the Moon.

British nuclear services company Cavendish Nuclear, together with its delivery partner USA-based engineering company Amentum, has been awarded the next phase of work by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency to support the decommissioning of the Monju Prototype Fast Reactor in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

California headquartered pulsed magnetic fusion system developer Pacific Fusion has selected Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the site for its first Research and Manufacturing Campus.

The USD1 billion New Mexico Research and Manufacturing Campus at Mesa del Sol will house the company's Demonstration System, designed to achieve net facility gain - more fusion energy out than all the energy stored in the system - by 2030. Pacific Fusion will launch its manufacturing operations in New Mexico before the end of the year, with facility construction set to begin in 2026.

British inertial fusion energy developer First Light Fusion has presented the first commercially viable, reactor-compatible path to 'high gain' fusion, which it says would drastically reduce the cost of what the company says is a limitless clean energy source.

HS2 Ltd is turning to some of the country’s most innovative tech specialists to bolster the ongoing work to get HS2 back on track.

Mark Wild, HS2 Ltd’s Chief Executive, is currently leading a comprehensive review of Britain’s biggest infrastructure programme – ensuring the railway can be built efficiently and to the lowest reasonable cost.

Now a call is being made to small technology specialists to bring their own expertise to HS2’s reset – coming up with innovative ideas to streamline the railway’s delivery, improve productivity and deliver value for money.

Guest: Alex Young, Head of Development, Evero Energy
Interviewed by: Antony Oliver

In today's podcast we are talking about bioenergy and specifically looking at how carbon capture and storage is set to transform the technology.

The UK’s net zero energy transition is firmly underway and one of the most promising new technologies is Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage, or BECCS. By combining the generation of renewable power with the permanent removal of CO₂, BECCS has been described as a “double win” for climate action.

Ovivo UK, based in Colchester, is the latest company in the region to have been awarded a significant contract on the Sizewell C project in East Suffolk.

The company, which has extensive experience in the nuclear industry, are experts in water technology, and their work at Sizewell C will involve the design, manufacture, and installation of advanced filtration systems. These systems will aid seawater abstraction for cooling the power station’s steam condensers before the water is safely returned to the sea.

EDF, Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity, has agreed a partnership with Fidra Energy, backed by EIG, to manage and optimise two large battery storage units at the Thorpe Marsh project in Yorkshire. Together, these units will provide 560MW of storage capacity.