{"id":22097,"date":"2026-04-15T13:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22097"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:07:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:07:37","slug":"small-modular-nuclear-reactors-climate-solution-or-costly-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22097","title":{"rendered":"Small Modular NUCLEAR Reactors. Climate Solution or Costly Distraction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Small modular nuclear&nbsp;reactors may not have a large enough market to gain from the advantages of mass production, especially when there are multiple companies trying to do it around the world, splitting the market&nbsp;further.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renewables combined with storage may be getting cheaper faster than progress on making small modular reactors profitable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Small Modular NUCLEAR Reactors. Climate Solution or Costly Distraction?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1TeAE7rW_6s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small modular nuclear reactors may not have a large enough market to gain from the advantages of mass production, especially when there are multiple companies trying to do it around the world, splitting the market further. <\/p>\n<p>Renewables combined with storage may be getting cheaper faster than progress on making small modular reactors profitable. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1TeAE7rW_6s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[913,235,180,444,512,694],"class_list":["post-22097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-power","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22099,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097\/revisions\/22099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}