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> Your comment is simply pretending that the manufacturing cycle/production process for wind and solar, utility or otherwise, doesn't involve the production small scale power generators produced at a massive scale.

This is not correct. I explicitly address this. An SMNR is not comparable to an individual solar panel, it is comparable to a whole solar instalation. See my comment again.

The individual parts of a solar instaltion are mass produced, e.g. individual panels. Whether a single solar panel is 6ft by 10ft or 60ft by 100ft does not really affect it's performance. The individual panels are made the size they are now, i.e. small, for convenience of transport, installation, and replacement. But the final power plant is made as big as possible in order to gain the benefits of economies of scale. The price of residential solar > price of commercial rooftop > utility scale solar.

> As it stands, we are left with China to possibly figure it out.

China so far has not figured it out. If anything the lack of progress that nuclear has made relative to wind/solar/hydro shows how difficult it is for it to compete. Nuclear energy production capacity has been growing, but at a fairly constant rate. wind/solar/hydro meanwhile has been growing at an ever increasing rate, which far surpases that of nuclear.