And... there it is, 11 paragraphs in: "The first Xe-100 SMR is being developed at a Dow manufacturing site on the Texas Gulf Coast, with financial support from

And... there it is, 11 paragraphs in: "The first Xe-100 SMR is being developed at a Dow manufacturing site on the Texas Gulf Coast, with financial support from the US government." (Emphasis mine.) From Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' memo (1953)[1]: "An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: 1. It is simple. 2. It is small. 3. It is cheap. 4. It is light. 5. It can be built very quickly. 6. It is very flexible in purpose (“omnibus reactor”) 7. Very little development is required. It will use mostly “off-the-shelf” components. 8. The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now." (Emphasis mine, again.) I've seen so many of these come (and go), I think they actually use Rickover's paper as a blueprint for their marketing pitch. Xe's site on the Xe-100[2], "A simple design & modularized components" where, "Our elegant and simple design maximizes the use of off-the-shelf components manufactured and shipped to site using existing road & rail." <shakes head> I think safe and affordable nuclear power could do a great deal of good. But I've seen "small modular reactor real soon" (including pebble-beds) for thirty years, so I'm reflexively skeptical. I checked to see if I could find any evidence this one is beyond the paper reactor stage, but my search-fu was insufficient to find it, presuming it exists. [1] https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html (The whole paper is well worth reading, IMHO) [2] https://x-energy.com/reactors/xe-100 https://x-energy.com/reactors/xe-100