The plant will help build 16 Small Modular Reactors planned for construction over the next 25 years.
Engineering firm Rolls-Royce has shortlisted six sites for a major new factory building nuclear reactors.
The government wants to build 16 Small Modular Reactors in the next 25 years to secure the UK's energy supply and hit its net-zero target by 2050.The potential factory locations are: Richmond in North Yorkshire, Deeside in Wales, Ferrybridge, Stallingborough in Lincolnshire, Sunderland and Carlisle.Rolls-Royce said it would create high-skilled jobs
Rolls-Royce SMR chief executive Tom Samson said it had had a "fantastic" response to calls for suggestions of where the site could be, which showed the "ambition and appetite of the UK" for the reactors which would "provide affordable, low-carbon electricity for generations to come".Rolls-Royce was previously backed by a consortium of private investors and the UK government to develop the reactors.
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