CelloMomOnCars, 7 months ago

"The #US has approved a single design for a small, #ModularNuclearReactor developed by the company NuScale Power.

With the price of #renewables dropping precipitously, however, the project's economics have worsened, and backers started pulling out of the project.

In the US, no large reactors are planned, and the last few projects of that sort were either canceled or ran horrifically over budget."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/first-planned-small-nuclear-reactor-plant-in-the-us-has-been-canceled/