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Three years ago, small modular reactors looked finished. NuScale's flagship project collapsed under massive cost overruns, and the customers walked. I said the same thing every time I covered these reactors: promising, but unproven. Now nuclear energy is having its best year in decades. New projects are breaking ground for the first time in a decade, and the federal government has made $900 million available to back small modular reactors. So is this really the year small nuclear finally works? Or are we just watching the same expensive promises dressed up in new headlines?

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Chapters

00:00 - Intro
03:45 - The Big If
07:04 - The Fuel Challenge
08:34 - SMRs vs. Big Reactors
11:06 - The SMR Reality