Rolls-Royce launches graduate programme for future nuclear safety experts

Rolls-Royce has launched a new graduate programme, which aims to develop the next generation of nuclear safety experts.

Rolls-Royce SMR believes its Safety and Regulatory Affairs Graduate Programme represents a major stride forward in developing the next generation of specialists to help it transform the way nuclear projects are delivered.

The new programme will help graduates gain the skills and confidence to shape the safe design, operation, and performance of Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) – the UK’s first domestic civil nuclear technology in more than a generation.

Mark Salisbury, Rolls-Royce SMR’s head of regulatory affairs, said: “Safety, security, safeguards and environmental protection underpin everything we do at Rolls-Royce SMR.

“This programme offers talented graduates the opportunity to work alongside industry-leading nuclear, safety, and regulatory experts and contribute to the safe delivery of our SMR technology.”

The programme is open to graduates from engineering, physics, mathematics, systems engineering, risk, safety, reliability and other STEM disciplines.

Successful applicants will grow their careers in one of four specialist areas: Environment, Safety, Security & Safeguards, Internal Hazards Engineering, External Hazards and Probabilistic Safety Assessment.

Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N) recently announced Wylfa on Ynys Môn (Anglesey) as the site for the UK’s first Small Modular Reactors delivering up to 1.5 GW of low-carbon electricity.

This will support the UK’s net zero goals and create significant economic benefit, including 8,000 jobs.

Rolls-Royce SMR has also been selected as preferred bidder in the GBE-N SMR competition and by European utility, ČEZ, to build up to three gigawatts of new nuclear power in the Czech Republic.

To find out more about the Safety and Regulatory Affairs Graduate Programme click here.