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SMR's seem like a pipe dream tbh.



The problem isn’t the technology, it’s the economics.

The assembly and economies of scale for “mass production” have not been proven in practice; who will you sell the countless expensive ones before it gets cheaper?

And the smaller reactor has diseconomies of scale working against it for the electricity it produces. So the $/MWh price is much higher than for larger reactors.




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