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this is toy sized reactor, not even entire technology demonstrator, there are medical isotope/research reactors with power 20MWt and more
A small test reactor paves the way for bigger, more practical reactors. You can't start with a full-sized gigawatt model; you need to test and validate your designs at a small scale first.
This is such a weird comment, full of "NiCd batteries aren't good enough so solar/wind are useless because we can't store the power" energy.
It's a test reactor, it's meant to be smaller than the "big boys", and in a few years it'll be smaller and more efficient.
Sure, it's not going to singlehandedly power an entire country, but distributed power is better than localized. 1000 small reactors placed all over means less likelihood of system wide failure than a handful of large ones.
When state-level funding for SMRs is available, it just makes more sense to build normal, GWe-sized reactors instead. For everything else, look up https://awful.systems/comment/7019440
take the thinly veiled racism elsewhere
what the fuck are you talking about