How is 440 MWe small? Output of this reactor is equivalent to the Russian VVER 440 that has been around for decades. The Russians also did the sensible thing wh

How is 440 MWe small? Output of this reactor is equivalent to the Russian VVER 440 that has been around for decades. The Russians also did the sensible thing when they started with a 210 MWe design and slowly scaled it up to 1200 MWe. Two of these 1200 reactors have been just finished and test fired in Astravets, Belarus, near the Lithuanian border. This got Lithuanua all worked up because of 'safety concerns', halting power imports from Belarus.