Martin goes on to talk about nucular pipe dreams. Hmmmm. If you covered the total footprint of a nuclear reactor’s grounds with solar panels, you’d produce more power than the nuke. Paraphrased, Elon Musk “Small modular reactors won’t achieve economies of manufacturing scale, won’t be faster to construct, forego efficiency of vertical scaling, won’t be cheaper, aren’t suitable for remote or brownfield coal sites, still face very large security costs, will still be costly and slow to decommission, and still require liability insurance caps. They don’t solve any of the problems that they purport to while intentionally choosing to be less efficient than they could be. They’ve existed since the 1950s and they aren’t any better now than they were then.” Michael Barnard