[mikece]

I love the idea of SMR, not only the run-safe designs but the idea that clusters of them could be installed in metro areas and eliminate the transmission loss from generating electricity far away and transporting it to the load. And by having clusters of small reactors it enables both economies of scale and makes it feasible to have standby units per cluster allowing spent units to be replaced without the cluster having a diminished load service capacity.

I'm sure the greenies will find some reason to hate this concept (despite it being a great ZERO CARBON electricity solution) but in the city I live there are already two decommissioned coal-fired plants which could be leveled and re-purposed in this manner -- and they already have grid connection right of way and some of the equipment. This is such an obviously winning idea it's hard to imagine why people would oppose it.