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These companies would all LOVE to use small modular nuclear reactors in their datacenters... if the NRC ever got around to approving a license for one.


People like the idea of economical SMRs, but it seems unlikely they will ever be economical. There's no real reason not to just build LMRs instead (e.g., AP1000).




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