Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Economy – in the Senedd at 1:56 pm on 15 June 2022.
I thank the Minister for that response. Now, anyone who follows the story of the nuclear sector in this country—and I do in detail—will know that Rolls-Royce is the only option considered by the Westminster Government to develop small nuclear modular reactors, SMRs. Now, of course, this close relationship between the Westminster Government and Rolls-Royce comes as a result of the fact that we need to secure the skills and supply chain for the Dreadnought submarine programme, which is hugely expensive, and that's what actually drives the new demand for nuclear. The SMR Rolls-Royce proposals are 450 MW and the company has made it entirely clear to me in our meetings that the infrastructure doesn't exist in Trawsfynydd to locate one of the SMRs, never mind more than one. Given that an SMR cannot come to Traws, therefore, what is the point of Cwmni Egino?