Tax dollar giveaway time. Small modular reactors. [View all]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/01/climate/nuclear-small-modular-reactors-us-russia-china-climate-solution-intl/index.html
There is a huge public relations effort behind the push for small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear power plants. The nuke industry is flooding the media with hyper-optimistic information describing SMR plants as The Answer to all our prayers. Reading between the lines, however, reveals that SMR development in the US lags behind Russia and China because they enjoy cheap labor and can take safety shortcuts. So SMRs may never even take off domestically, let alone develop an export market. Unless... yes, you guessed it: tax breaks, subsidies, streamlined licensing, the whole ball of wax. And we might do it. Global warming is a bitch, and it might be worth it to spend trillions of dollars to subsidize and regulate hundreds of nuke plants all over the country. Make no mistake; it will be waaaay expensive, probably with a bigger price tag than going to Mars and our coming war with Iran. What do we think? Worth it or not?