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 That's really interesting, and an obvious option if they can get past the real challenges of running a nuclear power plant on a container ship, while also dealing with the massive amount of propaganda against nuclear that is so prevalent. Even in this article the authors say "Of course, you already know that this source is neither renewable nor clean, which is not a good idea, according to what we think."  
 Bottom lines trump icky opinions. Fuel costs have spiked so high that this not only makes sense, but it is inevitable. 

These SMRs are going to be part of the future, and not too far into the future.  
 Yeah, SMR's have been around for awhile now. The only thing stopping them is governments addiction to being thought nicely off by the green lobby... 
 The big business pressure is mounting to allow them, though. I can't wait for this, personally.  
 Me too, it would be a game changer. Though i'm too cynical to belive it would drop energy prices 🤣 
 Well, look at what BTC mining is doing for Texas. Prices are dropping. It IS possible.  
 It is, but I'm enough of a conspiracy theorist to belive thats out of our control.. 🤣 
 Maybe, but... We can have an outsized effect locally. Proximity increases our influence.