With a few SMR projects built and operational at this point, and more plants under development, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) concludes in a report that SMRs are “still too expensive, too slow to build, and too risky to play a significant role in transitioning away from fossil fuels.”
We can’t scale battery storage or hydro storage to the capacity we need to go carbon free
Be that as it may, nuclear is not the answer either.