Sure, if you want expensive reactors. Much of the technological base on nuclear either: 1. Scales with square or cube laws. 2. Are essentially fixed. A 100 M

Sure, if you want expensive reactors. Much of the technological base on nuclear either: 1. Scales with square or cube laws. 2. Are essentially fixed. A 100 MWe reactor requires a very similar amount of security as a 1600 MWe reactor, maintenance intervals are similar and so on. Thus, it has been evident from the very first days that bigger is better, from an economic perspective because you get both a more efficient reactor and more output to spread the huge fixed costs on. The problem has been that even the bigger reactors are hideously expensive. Nuclear power never breached the cusp where it would be worth it and today the cost to build new renewables are in the same range as the operations and maintenance cost of existing, paid off, nuclear plants. Let alone trying to build one.