The article is fairly sparse in details and could be summarized by: >so if more components of the plant, or even the entire plant, could be built offsite under

The article is fairly sparse in details and could be summarized by: >so if more components of the plant, or even the entire plant, could be built offsite under controlled factory conditions, such extra costs could be substantially cut From the paper (locked behind paywall) there is also a mention of rising labor costs. I wonder if this has more to do with the size of reactors, which went up from 600-800MWhe up to the 1500MWhe range, i.e. if containment buildings (safety systems etc) at those power levels are just a massive dis-economy of scale.