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Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC by mikestorrent on Friday December 12, 2025 @09:14PM (#46251360)
The problem is that we insist on building nuclear plants like cathedrals, when we need to build them like Model T Fords.

Small modular reactors need to be rolling out of a factory ready to go, so we can do large redundant arrays of them, put them on trains to transport them around, etc.

A nuclear power station making a couple MW should cost maybe a few million tops once we have the ability to make hundreds of them a year from a factory instead of creating these 20 year projects for gigantic facilities that are all bespoke

Re:Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC by laurencerowe on Saturday December 13, 2025 @02:41AM (#46252848)
It’s far from certain that SMRs will end up having lower costs than large nuclear reactors. Maybe they will work out but there is a huge amount of hype.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-30/silicon-v...

(https://archive.ph/Wvfqr)