[Adder]

“Unlimited” cheap power.

Just like the big reactors were supposed to provide.

The costs will be as high or higher IF they are ever brought on line.

BUT they can be a viable option. Lets just be honest: they won’t be cheap.

[tenger]

The problem is, the large reactors, as I understand, each had their own designs that needed to be vetted approved individually, which raised the costs significantly.

With modular reactors, there's one or two designs for all the reactors. No need to go into large bureaucratic mumbo jumbo and design approvals if they're all the same. Of course, real life is never as simple as that, but the modular should have less time to get built, thereby reducing the costs.

Good theory, I guess...

[bobbo666]

Big reactors did provide cheap energy — until the small minded idiots who listened to the lies of the treehuggers, especially about the back end.
Nuke industry in this country in the ‘90’s turned into a visit to the DMV. Hopeless, by design.