"Investment in SMRs will take resources away from carbon-free and lower-cost renewable technologies"
As if nuclear belched carbon, for one thing. But regardless of that, some form of energy generation has to be "base-load", supplying power when their precious solar and wind boondoggles fail. Like at NIGHT, and when there's too little wind, (or too MUCH). That means either nuclear or fossil fuels, or hydro.
Exactly.