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- Why are there so few economies of scale in construction? https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/why-are-there-so-few-economies-of 2 comments
- Why are there so few economies of scale in construction? Part I https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/why-are-there-so-few-economies-of 84 comments
- "Small modular reactors won’t achieve economies of manufacturing scale, won’t be faster to construct, forego efficiency of vertical scaling, won’t be cheaper, aren’t suitable for remote or brownfield coal sites, still face very large security costs, will still be costly and slow to decommission, ... https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/03/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-are-mostly-bad-policy/ 208 comments energy