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Finally! I remember discussing this with work colleagues some 10 years ago; we were all aware of the reactors used in submarines. I could not understand why this had not been exploited for civilian power generation, possibly on a local basis, rather than mega-scale installations in a single location. I really hope this is recognised by the government as the sensible way forward. We really need to bite the bullet and get on with this opportunity to create new exportable business for the UK, including all design and manufacture. A lot of heavy engineering and nuclear engineering expertise has now been lost but could be recreated. One of the justifications must be to use" up the 112 tonnes of Pu stored at Sellafield which can't be sold or given away and with a half-life of some 25,000 years will be need permanent storage at £Bns cost. Using it instead in reactors -SMRs preferably ready fuelled -will burn up the Pu generally leading to much shorter half-life fission products while providing a lot of electricity. Eventually the reactors could be replaced by thorium fuelled reactors which do not have the proliferation issues, if we haven't got reliable fusion power available by then.