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Standard Power selects NuScale SMR tech to power data centers (www.power-eng.com)

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Wonder if they will actually be built? I don't think anyone has actually done this yet

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're building out in Idaho, but the rising cost of pretty much everything globally slowed them down. They just got the approval for the cost increases in January.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/a-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-just-got-us-approval-a-big-milestone

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't help that traditionally nuclear reactors are always ending up way over budget. But hey, atoms go boom!