David Lowry: SMRs promoters must face up to some very inconvenient truths. At the end of October 2015, some 130 nuclear company representatives, R&D specialists and innovators, along with some and key policy players, met in the shadow of The Tower of London for Nuclear Energy Insider ’s two-day First Small Modular Reactor (SMR) UK summit. Nearly a year earlier, the UK’s National nuclear Laboratory had released a 64-page technical appraisal of SMRs – titled a Small Modular Reactors (SMR) Feasibility Study for deliberation among the nuclear technology community.
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