The trouble with Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) – THEY’RE NOT SMALL7 August 2026 Noel Wauchope, https://theaimn.net/the-trouble-with-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-smrs-theyre-not-small/The big boasts for small nuclear reactors are that they are modular and they are small. So – now we have SMRs being touted as the great new source of electricity – a sort of vision of little nuclear reactors dotted in their many thousands all over the world. Case study 1 – NuScale – the American experimentThe NuScale SMR is a pressurized water reactor (PWR) – a type of light-water nuclear reactor. So it’s pretty much a small version of the “tried and tested” large nuclear reactors. Both countries have only one small nuclear reactor in operation, and in each case, it hasn’t been very successful.