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I first learned about it with this project in Butte, Montana, which is in development. They also have a page describing a deployment in Saskatchewan. I don’t know if this was completed yet but it’s been in progress for years. There’s also a lot of other planned deployments I’m finding.

I thought I saw some active deployment on the east coast last time I looked into this but haven’t been able to immediately find an example. Either way, it’s at least in progress, has regulatory backing, and is not just imaginary.

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IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d say it’s imaginary if they don’t exist. Your claim that, “They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US.” isn’t really accurate, is it?

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- treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I’d say it’s imaginary if they don’t exist. Your claim that, “They’re currently being deployed in industrial settings around the US.” isn’t really accurate, is it?
  
  I’d consider signed agreements as part of the “being deployed” process but yeah, I haven’t been able to find evidence of any currently active deployments. I wouldn’t call it a “moonshot” though when there’s so many in the works is all.
  
  Not really sure how NuScale is relevant as that’s (or at least the project in the article is) utility-level power and not really the same thing.
  
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  - IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Not really sure how NuScale is relevant as that’s (or at least the project in the article is) utility-level power and not really the same thing.
    
    They’re both SMRs, right?
    
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