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  "textContent": "When I wrote in 2021 that small modular reactors were mostly bad policy (peer reviewed version, CleanTechnica version), the argument was not that nuclear fission could not produce useful low-carbon electricity. It was already doing so every day. The United States had about 98 GW of operating nuclear capacity, and ... [continued]\n\nThe post Nuclear Scaling Requires Discipline. SMRs Deliver Fragmentation appeared first on CleanTechnica.",
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