There are a large number of startups that should be at least risk of failure. Many of them are SMRs, or small modular reactors, who promise scale economies by building a reactor at the central convenience and then sending it to the installation site. But, yet, only one of this type of reactor has been approved in the US, and the sole planning of this design is installed Was canceled Since the expected cost of electricity became irrelevant.
This environment makes investment in nuclear power itself extremely dangerous. However, we are also at a time when natural gas, air and especially solar prices are incredibly low, which makes it difficult to justify the larger frontal costs of nuclear power, before they begin to make profit on these costs.
A new hope?
The Trump administration is expected to change, though you can question the sincerity of this effort. To start, executive orders were issued on Friday before the weekend of the holiday, usually the time that is specific to the news that you hope nobody focuses. One of the announcements is also capable of sending nuclear power (which means it can be rapidly up and down), which is certainly not. Finally, it develops nuclear power as to avoid other types of strength, “as contaminated with potentially harmful health effects.” Elsewhere, the administration is eliminating pollution regulations and promoting the use of high pollution fuel like coal.
Overall, the proposed steps in new executive orders are unrealistic to potentially reasonable. For example, ”Resurrecting the nuclear industrial base“Under the order, it is demanded for the ability to retrieve the ability to retrieve the nuclear fuel to obtain useful fuel, a process that is only very expensive than new fuel mining, and only the nuclear power will be less economically resolved.