4 hours ago, SpaceKadet said:

Just propaganda, not true at all. You're reading old news.

 

Russia and China have operational SMRs and are building more.

There are detailed engineering plans for several designs. Among them, the 4S from Toshiba. A project to power a small town in Alaska, but shut down by the powerful coal and oil lobbyists in Washington.

 

..."As of 2024, only China and Russia have successfully built operational SMRs.[15] Russia has been operating a floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov, in Russia's Far East (Pevek), commercially since 2020.[16] China's pebble-bed modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor HTR-PM was connected to the grid in 2021.[17]

As of 2025, there were 127 modular reactor designs, with seven designs operating or under construction, 51 in the pre-licensing or licensing process, and 85 designers in discussions with potential site owners."...

The rest here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor

Some more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-has-it-russia-building-it-india-working-on-it-the-small-nuclear-reactor-race/ar-AA1NpwlX

 

Concerning the Chinese HTR-PM, the WNISR says, “Between January and December 2022, the reactors operated for only 27 hours out of a possible maximum of 8,760 hours. In the subsequent three months, they seem to have operated at a load factor of around 10 percent.” The Russian units’ performance has been nearly as dismal. “The operating records of the two KLT-40S reactors have been quite poor. According to the IAEA’s PRIS [Power Reactor Information System] database, the two reactors had load factors of just 26.4 and 30.5 percent respectively in 2022, and lifetime load factors of just 34 and 22.4 percent. The reasons for the mediocre power-generation performance remain unclear,” the report says.

Meanwhile, the promises of shortened timelines and lower costs were not borne out by these projects. “The experience so far in constructing these two SMRs as well as estimates for reactor designs like NuScale’s SMR show that these designs are also subject to the historical pattern of cost escalations and time overruns. Those cost escalations do make it even less likely that SMRs will become comhttps://www.powermag.com/a-closer-look-at-two-operational-small-modular-reactor-designs/mercialized, as the collapse of the Carbon Free Power Project involving NuScale reactors in the United States

1 hour ago, Fact said:

Simple math shows that 2030 is not all that far away.

You know, there's a joke that Brazilians tell about their country: Brazil is the land of the future and always will be.

When it comes to SMRs that means that 2030 is actually a very unlikely date. Whereas battery technology keeps on improving way ahead of projections.

9 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

You know, there's a joke that Brazilians tell about their country: Brazil is the land of the future and always will be.

When it comes to SMRs that means that 2030 is actually a very unlikely date. Whereas battery technology keeps on improving way ahead of projections.

We are not Brazil.

 

 

4 hours ago, Fact said:

We are not Brazil.

 

 

Do I really need to spell out for you how an analogy works?

9 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Do I really need to spell out for you how an analogy works?

We currently have many small nuclear power plants in use.