Abstract

The world is currently experiencing yet another 'nuclear renaissance'. Although this phenomenon seems to recur every 50 years or so, the demand for clean, constant, reliable nuclear energy now closer than ever matches technological potential of supply, particularly in the form of small modular reactors, SMRs. The concept is still far from commercialisation, but tech giants like Google, Amazon and OpenAI are already signing contracts for future capacity to power their energy-intensive data centres - one of the main factors driving the hype around nuclear ...