Full Title: NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor: Risks of Rising Costs, Likely Delays, and Increasing Competition Cast Doubt on Long- Running Development Effort
Author(s): David Schlissel, Dennis Wamsted
Publisher(s): Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
Publication Date: February 18, 2022
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Description (excerpt):
Too late, too expensive, too risky and too uncertain. That, in a nutshell, describes NuScale’s planned small modular reactor (SMR) project, which has been in development since 2000 and will not begin commercial operations before 2029, if ever.