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> Modern Generation III/III+ reactor designs have actually made this "chunkiness" worse; there's no modern reactor design under 500 MWe that's certified in the US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, or the EU

China has Generation IV pebble bed reactors coming online this year that are smaller (210 MWe) [1]. They would be the world's first Gen IV reactors in production. Would be interesting to see how that goes.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809916...

[MrBuddyCasino]

There was an experimental pebble bed test reactor in Germany. That didn't end well, it will be interesting to see if China does it better.

[honestoHeminway]

A collague of my grandfahther spend most of his lives work errecting that reactor, and then building it back until there was only green fields left where the building did stand.

Strange thing to do.