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		blitzar 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK's first small nuclear power station to be built... > Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) generates 470MW, so we’d need about 20 of them A more realistic target, one that would make this all more viable, would be 50MW and make 200 of them.

rsynnott 25 days ago [–]

That was the SMR dream, but it largely hasn't worked out, for various reasons. Most 'SMR' designs have grown to suspiciously close to er, normal nuclear reactors.

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