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None of the above. Smaller nuclear reactor projects are an effort to reduce the capital requirements to get started. There are inherent economies of scale in the physics which promote building larger reactors. Military propulsion reactors are < 1/10 the size of commercial power reactors today, and they are safe enough that we operate them with enlistees. But they are far too expensive for commercial operation.



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