Wesoff: SMRs are engineering solutions misapplied to financial and PR problems
Eric Wesoff · Making sense of advanced nuclear’s stumbles · Dec 12, 2023 · at 35:08
Energy journalist Eric Wesoff critiques the nuclear industry's reliance on new small modular reactor (SMR) designs instead of fixing cost and public perception.
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“Small reactors, SMRs, are a nuclear engineering solution to a financial problem. We need a financial solution to this financial problem. Small modular reactors are a nuclear engineering, engineering solution to a PR problem. We need a PR solution to that, not some great engineering design, design that, that won't help the financial or the PR problem.”
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