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Physical Sciences Reviews
From the journal Physical Sciences Reviews Volume 8 Issue 10

Abstract

People asserting that SMRs are the primary or only answer to energy generation either don’t know what they are talking about, are actively dissembling or are intentionally delaying climate action.

keywords: climate action; climate change; economics; nuclear generation; policy; small modular reactors
Corresponding author: Michael Barnard, TFIE Strategy Inc., 413-1088 Richards St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 0J8, Canada, E-mail:

  1. Author contributions: The author has accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The author declares no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

Published Online: 2022-01-13

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https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2021-0073
Keywords for this article
climate action; climate change; economics; nuclear generation; policy; small modular reactors

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