NuScale’s small nuclear reactor is first to get US safety approval

From the press release

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200828005299/en/

"NuScale spent over $500 million, with the backing of Fluor, and over 2 million labor hours to develop the information needed to prepare its DCA application"

Not cheap :)

On scaling down reactors to micro size (nuscale is kind of larger) and costs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtog_gOaGQ

$0.25/kWh until large series (17mn30s).

2 million pages of additional requested documentation? What would all of that possibly contain?

The Skunk Works people have been on about a fusion substation you could 'fit on the back of a truck' for years now and they are still working on it you gotta love those kind of high risk high reward R&D budgets

>Lockheed Martin says that the CFR design could eventually be small enough to fit inside a shipping container, but still be able to power a Nimitz class aircraft carrier or up to 80,000 homes

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29074/skunk-works-exot...

Who do I have to marry to get one of these planted nearby?