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Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales [but power unlikely before mid-2030s]
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025
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The whole pitch of SMR is modular reactors that can be mostly prefabbed offsite and just lego blocked into a power plant quickly.
So far, yeah we are seeing the same exact issue as normal nuclear, i.e. so complex with such high stakes if they fault, the build times and costs over run 3-5x for each of them.
SMR feels like the "clean coal" of nuclear. Ontario is absolutly treating it as greenwashing to prevent solar/wind when we know these are both cheap and easy techs that have great output, no safety issues, and almost no maintance costs, even when coupled with batteries. They really should be working to develop real SMR while pushing 100% ahead with relaible renewabale power, but yeah. Here we are.