I wonder what it'd take to adapt NuScale's SMR design. Probably a lot, given the unusual rigors of the Antarctic environment, but for basically the same reasons it seems like something that'd be worth funding.
We already tried that 60 years ago in Greenland, it didn’t end well.
That didn’t fail because of the nuclear reactor, it failed because the ice sheet movement deformed the tunnels over time and collapsed ceilings. Nothing to do with the feasibility of sitting a portable nuclear reactor on top of the ice like the settlements in Antarctica.
With a 30 degree delta between temperature and wind chill, I'd think they're ripe for wind turbines.
Unfortunatly wind turbines are also not really a big fan of the cold. When ice grows on the blades they can become unstable.