NuScale: Finally Time For Small Module Nuclear Reactors?

Summary

• Small module nuclear reactors have been discussed and researched for decades - going back to at least my college engineering days in the 1970s.
• Yet for a variety of reasons, small module reactors ("SMR") have never become a reality.
• NuScale Power wants to change that and at the present time, the company appears to be the planet's best chance to do so.
• Today I'll discuss my sense of NuScale's chances of success and whether or not the stock is a good fit for an investor's "speculative growth" bucket.

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NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR) is attempting to bring a decades-long desire to make small modular reactors a reality. The idea sounds great: Design one small, scalable, cost-efficient nuclear reactor - and then build many of them to achieve economies of scale and help solve the

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