A coalition of cities voted to keep backing a project to build's the nation's first small modular reactor, despite rising costs.
up-front investment. Small modular reactors, known as SMRs, can theoretically cut the costs of larger reactors by using factory-made parts that are shipped to the site.; it’s the first SMR design ever approved by the U.S. government, and only the seventh reactor design to be approved. The test project is set to be built in Idaho, and the six-reactor, 482-megawatt project would
come online in 2030. The coalition of cities involved in the Idaho project are known as the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems , a network of local utilities and other agencies that have signed up to become the first customers of the nation’s first-ever SMR. The cost increases NuScale informed the cities of in January were due to pretty basic stuff around supply chain management and inflation. Materials all over the world are generally more expensive than they have been in past years, and SMRs, while smaller than traditional reactors, are still huge infrastructure projects.
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