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Along with making fancy cars, Rolls Royce is a significant aerospace engineering company well known for their jet engines. https://www.rolls-royce.com/ https://
by cdot2 4y ago
Along with making fancy cars, Rolls Royce is a significant aerospace engineering company well known for their jet engines. https://www.rolls-royce.com/ https://www.rolls-royce.com/
- 8ytecoder 4y agoCar brand is owned by BMV. RR now is primarily known as a defence contractor and jet engine manufacturer (and other powerplants). To answer your original question, Rolls Royce is a major job provider in the UK. This is probably an attempt to revive it in addition to building it. A lot of these are job programs first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars
- nonethewiser 4y agoStill, I would be surprised if the US government commissioned a reactor from Pratt and Whitney.
- guiriduro 4y agoMore relevant for this case is that they are also involved in Submarine propulsion, which usually means nuclear. So I would guess that they have significant experience.
- Reason077 4y agoYes. Rolls-Royce reactors have powered the UK's nuclear submarine fleet since 1966: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_PWR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_PWR