You can also put my SMR onto one location with one control room.

The answer to generic defect is not to have a bunch of incompatible stuff with no commonality.

The NIMBY effect can kill literally anything, the issue with nuclear is cost, far more then NIMBY.

NuScale was always a bad idea. The PWR is the problem, making it smaller doesn't really solve the issues with them.

Project in Canada are struggling because the market in Canada is just to small. The reality is, you need massive amounts of funding, but with the way regulations work, even if Canada were literally perfect in every way, as long as large markets like the US, has unusable regulation, and Europe has wildly all over the place regulation, the needed money is just almost impossible to happen.

You are right that there is nothing new here, except maybe that large private institutions are starting to do some investing.

But the reality is, Rickover was right, Alvin M. Weinberg was even more right. An France did maybe the smart decision in their history when they embraced that philosophy. Sadly they only did so for 1-2 decades and then the next generation came in, was convinced that all those old people were idiots and now that the problem was solved for them they no longer had to pay attention to energy policy.

> You can also put my SMR onto one location with one control room.

I fail to understand which of the challenges I described it may relieve.

> The answer to generic defect is not to have a bunch of incompatible stuff with no commonality.

Having all brands of SMRs build interoperable parts is AFAIK beyond the most wild utopia. The very first step (convincing them to adopt the same architecture) is out of reach.

Yes, the NIMBY effect can kill literally anything, however it IMHO is way more powerful against nuclear than against solar and even wind energy, and as those last expand more and more people will understand that they don't have, in order to obtain electricity, to accept any nuclear-induced risk.

> The PWR is the problem

Which architecture seems more appropriate?

> the US, has unusable regulation, and Europe has wildly all over the place regulation, the needed money is just almost impossible to happen.

This is indeed a real challenge, however it mainly is because of past nuclear incidents and accidents.

> Alvin M. Weinberg was even more right

About the "Faustian bargain"?

> An France did maybe the smart decision in their history when they embraced that philosophy. Sadly they only did so for 1-2 decades and then the next generation came in, was convinced that all those old people were idiots and now that the problem was solved for them they no longer had to pay attention to energy policy.

As a French I doubt so. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/electricitedefrance/messmer-pl...