The hype cycle is in full spinSMRs are currently being marketed like they're the iPhone of nuclear energy: smarter, smaller, cheaper, scalable. Take the UK’s Hinkley Point C, once heralded as the future of nuclear energy in Europe. Price floors for nuclear, and price ceilings for reasonIn France and Finland, authorities have now agreed to guaranteed minimum prices for new nuclear power, effectively writing blank checks to ensure profitability for operators. Nuclear power, small or large, is simply too expensive, too slow, too risky, and too narrow in its use case to lead the energy transition. Let’s focus instead on the technologies that are already winning: wind, solar, batteries, heat pumps, grid flexibility, green hydrogen.