SMR based on old school water PWR is just not the best idea. The only reason to do it, is basically because everything else is impossible to get regulated. Putt

SMR based on old school water PWR is just not the best idea. The only reason to do it, is basically because everything else is impossible to get regulated. Putting whole PWR systems in one module seams pretty crazy compared to the alternative reactors we could be building. The PWR SMR are still massively bigger other SMRs. We built and tested better smarter designs for reactors that would be way smaller and cheaper but those are essentially impossible to license in the US and no other country has a market big enough to finance development it. Nuclear is so energy dense the market for it is so divided that the economics of scale are just not there in the same way unless you do it stat driven as in France or you have a large unified market like the US was when nuclear was cheap and expanding fast.