Can you imagine how a Texan operator of a SMR would have cut corners and what the damage to their plant would have been in this cold snap? Remembering that the

Can you imagine how a Texan operator of a SMR would have cut corners and what the damage to their plant would have been in this cold snap? Remembering that the damage to Texan energy production was due to failure to winterise their equipment after the last two cold snaps. It has happened before, they were told it was going to happen again, but the legislature decided that it was best to let the market decide the outcome. An SMR operator refusing to winterise their plant would end up in a similar situation: part of the equipment freezes or ices over (because antifreeze costs money), leading to an inability to scale up production until ambient temperatures rise far enough to defrost the frozen plant.