Great Britain and the United States discover the nuclear energy agreement on the eve of Trump’s visit

The UK and the US should sign an agreement aimed at accelerating the development of nuclear energy.

The agreement aims to create thousands of jobs and strengthen British energy security.

It is expected that this will be signed during a national visit to US President Donald Trump this week, hoping to unlock billions of private investments.

However, the designs that stand behind some contracts are relatively new and could take many years before nuclear projects generate energy for homes and companies.

The key focus of the so-called Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy is to build companies faster to build new nuclear power plants and in the UK and in the US.

Hope is that it will halve the time it takes to obtain regulatory approval for nuclear projects for up to four to two years.

In practice, this means that if the reactor has already undergone security checks in one country, this work can be used to support the work of another.

The British nuclear program already includes plans for small modular reactors (SCS), which are reduced versions of larger plants. The British engineering company Rolls Royce was selected for the design and construction of the first in the country.

One of the commercial contracts that will be signed this week is with an American nuclear group X-Energy and the British Center, which owns British gas, for the construction of up to 12 advanced modular reactors (AMR) in Hartlepool.

Unlike the SLA, which are water nuclear reactors, advanced modular reactors use gases such as helium as a refrigerant.

There are very few AMR in the world that operate on a commercial basis, such as a Chinese HTR-PM reactor.

The X-Energy wants to build one in the US, but after announcing a partnership with US chemicals and plastic Diva Dow, it took a request for a construction permit for a Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a project in Texas by March this year.

X-Energy said he hoped the reactor at DOW could be a draft for others and “manufacturers around the world can repeat this model”.

The government has announced that the Hartlepool contract has the potential to power 1.5 million homes and create up to 2500 jobs.

Energy secretary Ed Miliband said: “Nuclear will will be powerful our homes with pure, domestic energy and private sector builds it in Britain, providing growth and well -paid, qualified jobs for working people.”

But Greenpeace has questioned the focus in the UK on nuclear energy.

“If these proposals for new reactors are scattered in Britain, the net effect will be greater accounts than nuclear relentlessly spiral costs, and more CO2 is waiting for builders to prevail their inevitable delays in construction,” said Dr. Douglas Parr, Chief Scientist for Greenpeace UK.

The cost of building large nuclear plants in the UK, such as Sizewell C in Suffolk, jumped to £ 38 billion from a previous estimate of £ 20 billion. The center is one of the key investors in Sizewell C.

The deaths are working on the same principle as large reactors, using a nuclear reaction to produce heat that produces electricity, but have about a third of a generation output.

The modular element means that they could be built to order in factories – as a set of parts – and then transport and install together, like a flat packing power plant.

However, the death industry is still young, and many different designs are being explored.

Chief Center Centers Chris O’SHea said the BBC Todyay program to increase costs and delays “can happen in all major projects”.

But he said, “What you need to do is do more than just one 20 years to improve. So, the more you exercise, the better, the reason why small and advanced modular reactors are particularly interesting because it will repeat, so you will re -and again the same thing.

“This should make improvements in the view of costs and schedules and reliability and costs.”

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said earlier that he wanted the UK to return be “one of the world’s leaders on nuclear”.

In the 1990s, nuclear energy created about 25% of electricity in the UK, but this figure dropped to about 15%, and no new power plants have been built since then and many aging reactors in the country that were supposed to be released in the next decade.

In November 2024, the UK and 30 other countries signed a global promise to double their nuclear capacity by 2050.