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North America’s First SMR Project Is Running Late and Over Budget
Heatmap · By Alexander C. Kaufman ·
The Brief
- Heatmap News reports that North America's first small modular reactor (SMR) project is running late and over budget.
- The available source text does not name the project or give schedule or cost figures.
- The source excerpt otherwise consists of unrelated weather and hurricane-season content.
Why it matters
First-of-a-kind SMR projects are closely watched as a test of whether the technology can be built on time and on budget, so delays and overruns bear on future nuclear planning.
Who’s affected
- readers interested in nuclear energy and energy policy
- utilities and investors weighing small modular reactors
- #nuclear
- #small modular reactors
- #energy infrastructure
- #cost overruns
- #project delays
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