Any anyone working for any company in the government or a contractor’s supply chain, or anyone providing critical services for any of those companies, even the second-order ones.

Which is essentially every vaguely important company in the US.

I think the court is probably going to split the baby, rule that unlimited lending was a violation but one-to-one digital lending is fair use.

Because it’s a major national defense issue.

Most of the major world powers already do.

Your dog is stalking you! It’s what they do.

It’s almost like this method of generating electricity inherently scales poorly.

> There are several under construction in China and Russia.

Tech demonstrators are not the same as cost-competitive commercial products.

Designs, yes.

Approved commercial reactors a company can buy, no.

> "Mass production" of SMRs need not be the scale of consumer electronics to be cost effective.

If you want to make the argument that mass production will substantially reduce costs they would need to be.

It’s not like they have an alternative with a substantially better track record.

Basically nobody can successfully complete them anymore.

> Not likely. Mass production tends to result in efficiencies that can't be achieved with bespoke engineering at any scale.

SMRs would never be produced at a scale that would be considered genuinely mass production. You’d be talking a couple of dozen units a year, maybe.

It’s “mass production” compared with the current state of the industry, but we’re not talking cell phones here.

> SMRs can be dropped in just about anywhere at the substation level

Given than none of them currently have approval to be used that way, no, they can’t.

They could, in theory, be used that way in the future. But there is not currently a commercially available product that could be used that way outside of a tech demonstrator project that gets some sort of waiver.

It’s also unclear that SMRs could be deployed outside of a concrete containment vessel anyway.