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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by baybal2 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:59AM (#26426214)
Building smaller reactors in not as solution to nuclear's cost for many reasons I wrote above.

Economics of small reactors is unsound. A cult like group pushing "small modular reactors" pushes a very likely deliberately miscalculated pricing estimates for them.

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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by 7952 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:06PM (#26426299)
Some of the designs seem to have high civil engineering costs. Digging big holes is not exactly a cheap thing to do.
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