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Rolls-Royce-ČEZ SMR project at Temelín moves forward
A newly signed contract between U.K.-based Rolls-Royce SMR and the ČEZ Group in the Czech Republic will allow for design work to begin on the planned small modular reactors at the Temelín nuclear power plant site in the Czech Republic. The companies, which hope to deploy as much as 3 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity in the country, signed an early works contract that will see them begin preparing for consents, permitting, and licensing and continuing preliminary infrastructure activities as they develop a site application for the SMRs.
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2026)
Coordinator for Strategic Capabilities, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President
Dr. Aaron Miles works at the intersection of physics, national security, and strategic policy. His scholarship and public writing span deterrence strategy, nuclear weapons and arms control, nonproliferation, space policy, fusion and fission energy, high-energy-density and nonequilibrium plasmas, pulsed power, astrophysics, and planetary defense.
He currently serves as Coordinator for Strategic Capabilities at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he helps shape national strategy on emerging and advanced technologies. He previously served there as Principal Assistant Director for National Security and International Affairs and as Assistant Director for Nuclear and Strategic Technologies.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Miles advised senior leaders at the Department of State on arms control, deterrence, and strategic stability, and at the Office of the Secretary of Defense on nuclear deterrence policy. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland and a graduate certificate in National Security Studies from Texas A&M University.
