Makes sense. I’ve been advocating this very strategy: SMRs to produce distributed energy, reliably and safely. Reduce and simplify the grid as well as increase efficiency.
Whatever happened to those Toshiba mini-nuke plants for remote locations?
ONLY ONE BIG PROBLEM... They will still be HIGH PRESSURE VESSEL REACTORS, not MSR or IMSR which operate at 1 - 1.5 bar!
IMSR and MSR reactors can’t “melt down” the fuel is in the the liquid salt mix. If the salt mix gets too hot it looses reactivity and the reaction slows down then cools down then heats up again... They are SELF REGULATING which a high pressure reactors ARE NOT!