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Hunatom and Rolls-Royce SMR memorandum on potential use of Rolls-Royce SMRs in Hungary

Hunatom and Rolls-Royce SMR signed a memorandum on the potential use of Rolls-Royce SMR technology in Hungary, Hunatom stresses it is not yet a binding commitment. World Nuclear Association dates it to June 2025. It follows a January 2025 UK-Hungary strategic cooperation focused on SMRs.

Not a deployment project. SMR plans, agreements, studies and government programmes that are not (yet) a single deployment project. They are listed separately and are never counted as projects or reactors.

Type

Cooperation agreement or MOU

Countries concerned

Hungary

Participants and roles

• Host or customer: Hunatom
• Developer or vendor: Rolls-Royce SMR

Designs named

Rolls-Royce SMR

Scale as stated

no unit count or site

Announced or first reported

Jun 2025

Status

Active
Non-binding MoU (Hunatom: "does not yet mean a binding commitment"), no site.

Confidence

medium

Last checked

2026-10-14 (record review date, not proof of current activity)

Related deployment projects

• No related deployment project is recorded here.

Sources

• News: Memorandum of Understanding on the potential use of Rolls-Royce SMRs (company_primary, accessed 2026-10-14)
• Nuclear Power in Hungary (directory_or_aggregator, accessed 2026-10-14)
• Hungary's foreign minister sees SMR cooperation with UK (reputable_press, published 29 Jan 2025, accessed 2026-10-14)