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Bespoke behemoth power plants may have the advantage size in the ability to generate power but they seem to be impossible to bring in on schedule and under budget.

Small Modular Reactors should upend that hegemony through mass production but so far still can't compete. SMRs would be perfect for converting every single existing coal fired plant and allow our power generation to go carbon free in record time.

I'm pro-renewables but believe we need as many energy options as possible.



Feel free to place an SMR in your neighborhood on a flatbed truck guarded only by one part-time security guard.


I wasn't suggesting that approach, but yes, security will always be a concern.




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