[Skybird]

However, Small Nuclear Reactors (SMR) hzave jzst face d setbabck when some ociensing or permission to operate them was refuse din the US, its a news 10-14 days old or so. Also, these reactors tend to suffer from more neurton leakage than bigge rreactors, studies oif the past 3-4 years found, I recall.


I do not mean this as a death bell ringing on SNR technology, which is in use in military contexts (ships, submarines) and in Russian ice breakers since decades, but right now it probaly iitll is not the silver bullet causingn miracles and wonder. However, we are probably closer to succeed with this tech than we are with succeeding with fusion reactors, which imo still are several - many - decades away: if they will ever become economically operational (which I do not rule out, but no longer take as a certainty).