--- title: A £35bn plan to build 14 mini nuclear reactors in the UK description: Polish billionaire Michał Sołowow's firm SGE has announced plans to build 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactors across three UK sites at an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-35bn-plan-to-build-14-mini-nuclear-reactors-in-the-uk-rt5ihu9sv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A £35bn plan to build 14 mini nuclear reactors in the UK | daily.dev og:description: Polish billionaire Michał Sołowow's firm SGE has announced plans to build 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactors across three UK sites at an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-35bn-plan-to-build-14-mini-nuclear-reactors-in-the-uk-rt5ihu9sv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Rt5ihU9sv.png og:image:alt: A £35bn plan to build 14 mini nuclear reactors in the UK og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A £35bn plan to build 14 mini nuclear reactors in the UK **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Polish billionaire Michał Sołowow's firm SGE has announced plans to build 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactors across three UK sites at an estimated cost of £35bn. The fleet would generate 4.2GW — enough for roughly 8 million homes or 11% of UK electricity demand — with a target of first power in 2034. The project is privately financed but seeks government-backed Contracts for Difference and National Wealth Fund engagement. The push is driven by surging power demand from AI data centres, EVs, and heat pumps. Key risks include the fact that no BWRX-300 reactor is commercially operational yet, and nuclear projects have a long history of delays and cost overruns. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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