>”hard to defend targets that would make the immediate areas "dirty" with unusable land for centuries or longer.” The smaller scale of the reactors limits how

>”hard to defend targets that would make the immediate areas "dirty" with unusable land for centuries or longer.” The smaller scale of the reactors limits how bad the fallout would be, both in terms of how violent any meltdown could be and how much material could be dispersed. You certainly wouldn’t have a Chernobyl or Fukushima situation. Cleanup would be expensive but it would not be unusable for centuries. From what I can tell small module reactors are not actually planned to be installed individually and dispersed around a city. All the plans suggest placing something like 6-10 together in a dedicated facility just like a conventional power plant. It would certainly have good security.