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Seconding @Rex.
It's been a few years since I worked in power. We were running plants, not deploying new ones (much to the senior engineers' chagrin), but he's got the dynamics right. The closest thing we were doing to R&D was a somewhat unusual solar farm out in Colorado.
Keep in mind that the power industry isn't funded by futurists. It's owned in large part by investment banks, and given the high level of capital already built, that leads to a certain conservatism.
I would love to see SMR or nuclear in general take off. I just don't expect it to happen en masse without some sort of breakthrough to change that calculus.
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