The essentials
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Why factory-built
Field construction is where nuclear schedules die. Modules built under factory QA and shipped complete change the risk profile entirely.
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Passive safety
Small cores reject decay heat passively. That removes whole classes of active safety systems and shrinks the emergency planning zone.
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The nth-of-a-kind problem
Unit economics only work after a production run. Getting from first-of-a-kind to nth-of-a-kind is a financing problem, not a technical one.
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Decay heat
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