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SMRs are being touted now, but (1) they aren't that small, and (2) they have to be grouped together or else fixed labor costs become unacceptable per unit of power output. The result is a collection whose power output isn't too different from conventional large reactors.


I agree it’s unlikely but by the same token renewables don’t really solve this problem any better - at the end of the day you need batteries for both.


Renewables scale down much better than nuclear does, particularly PV. For that matter, so do batteries.




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