Nuclear Scaling Requires Discipline. SMRs Deliver Fragmentation

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardApr 28, 2026, 6:30 pm210 ptsTop
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,…

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