Nuclear Scaling Requires Discipline. SMRs Deliver Fragmentation
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Summary
<p>When I wrote in 2021 that small modular reactors were mostly bad policy (peer reviewed version, CleanTechnica version), the argument was not that nuclear fission could not produce useful low-carbon electricity. It was already doing so every day. The United States had about 98 GW of operating nuclear capacity, and ... [continued]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/28/nuclear-scaling-requires-discipline-smrs-deliver-fragmentation/">Nuclear Scaling Requires Discipline. SMRs Deliver Fragmentation</a> appeared first on <a href="https://cleantechnica.com">CleanTechnica</a>.</p>
<p>When I wrote in 2021 that small modular reactors were mostly bad policy (peer reviewed version, CleanTechnica version), the argument was not that nuclear fission could not produce useful low-carbon electricity. It was already doing so every day. The United States had about 98 GW of operating nuclear capacity, and ... [continued]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/28/nuclear-scaling-requires-discipline-smrs-deliver-fragmentation/">Nuclear Scaling Requires Discipline. SMRs Deliver Fragmentation</a> appeared first on <a href="https://cleantechnica.com">CleanTechnica</a>.</p>