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Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are yet another apparently promising ‘silver bullet’ style solution to the Net Zero challenge. All the reliable, safe, baseload power of large centralised nuclear power stations but without the huge cost overspends and crippling project delays. What’s not to like, eh? Great on paper…but do Small Modular Nuclear Reactors pass the ‘sniff test’ in the real world?

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Research Links

Visual Capitalist – GREAT infographics

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Michael Barnard articles about SMR technology

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/03/28/shoveling-money-into-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-wont-make-their-electricity-cheap/

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/11/30/what-drives-this-madness-on-small-modular-nuclear-reactors/

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/03/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-are-mostly-bad-policy/

Paul Martin series on industrial scaling and SMRs

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/scaling-examples-pt-1-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-smnrs-martin/

NuScale Press Release

https://www.uamps.com/file/0f96e06f-9cd9-4cec-8fd3-0dbc753c6ea0

NuScale media coverage

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nuscale-power-uamps-agree-terminate-nuclear-project-2023-11-08/

https://iceberg-research.com/2023/11/16/the-collapse-of-the-uamps-deal-raises-the-prospect-of-bankruptcy-for-nuscale/

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cancelled-nuscale-contract-weighs-heavy-new-nuclear-2024-01-10/

Rolls Royce media coverage

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsrolls-royce-smr-faces-financial-problems-10648145

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1040531/rolls-royce-snubbed-for-uk-s-first-private-nuclear-plant-1040531.html

Westinghouse AP300 Promotional Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAiLnKAEc6E

China SMR Project – media coverage

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-HTR-PM-Demo-begins-commercial-operation

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Outer-dome-installed-on-Chinese-small-modular-nucl#:~:text=Once%20completed%2C%20the%20Changjiang%20ACP100,the%20needs%20of%20526%2C000%20households

Rosatom SMR Project

https://www.rosatom.ru/en/press-centre/news/rosatom-obtained-a-license-for-the-first-land-based-smr-in-russia/

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