The entire point of moving towards the more expensive form factor of SMRs was to avoid cost overruns, and maybe even get some cost decreases in the future. I m

The entire point of moving towards the more expensive form factor of SMRs was to avoid cost overruns, and maybe even get some cost decreases in the future. I maintain hope that some of the other SMR attempts will not have the same ballooning costs problem of every single nuclear project that inspired them, but it's a hold based on the need for the tech, not a hope that could be backed with a rational reasoning. I fear that the entire nuclear industry is filled with charlatans, and nobody who isn't a charlatan would ever get funding to start working on a new reactor.