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by throw0101a 634 days ago
RR also has some SMRs in Poland:

* https://www.rolls-royce-smr.com/press/polish-government-issu...

in addition to Poland's GEH’s BWRX-300 in collaboration with AtkinsRealis (who also do the CANDU designs):

* https://www.atkinsrealis.com/en/media/press-releases/2024/20...

* https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/projects/2024/0...

AIUI, Poland has a bunch of generation sites that were small/medium in size that were around former coal mines, and so a lot of the transmission infrastructure is already present. It's just that they can't go 'too big' in those places as they'd have to spend a lot more on grid upgrades instead of 'just' a 1:1 replacement with SMRs.