[epistasis]

I was never ever excited about NuScale, it seemed like a scam from the start. There was no basis for any of their claims, just a lot of hot air from a name with no reputation.

The BWRX-300 (300MW) build proposals in Canada at Darlington seem more realistic. Not small, not that modular, but the closest to SMR.

I'm hopeful, but not optimistic. The time to incorporate tech advancements in construction was pre-2010, or at a bare minimum to have a mere one new build in France, the US, the UK, or Finland succeed in a way that seemed like it could be replicated. Now, it's too late, and other tech has advanced too far.

Nobody is even talking about how to halve the cost of nuclear, they are only trying to make it less likely to have a build failure.