Dozens of ‘small modular reactor’ designs are being promoted but precious few will reach the construction stage and the likelihood of SMRs being built in large numbers is negligible.
I read that South Korea built 10 reactors at a third the cost in the West. How did they do it?
https://d2umxnkyjne36n.cloudfront.net/documents/D7.3-ETI-Nuclear-Cost-Drivers-Summary-Report_April-20.pdf?mtime=20180426151016
South Korea hasn't built any SMRs at all. South Korean designed the 'SMART' SMR but none built domestically ("this is not practical or economic" according to the World Nuclear Association ) or elsewhere. As for conventional large reactors, deep-seated corruption is part of the answer to your question, see https://wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/887/nuclear-monitor-887-17-june-2020 and https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/844/south-koreas-nuclear-mafia
Corruption usually increases costs, not reduce them. So you are saying Korean plants are unsafe?
Cost-cutting corruption has reduced costs and increased safety risks - read the links.
I read that South Korea built 10 reactors at a third the cost in the West. How did they do it?
https://d2umxnkyjne36n.cloudfront.net/documents/D7.3-ETI-Nuclear-Cost-Drivers-Summary-Report_April-20.pdf?mtime=20180426151016
South Korea hasn't built any SMRs at all. South Korean designed the 'SMART' SMR but none built domestically ("this is not practical or economic" according to the World Nuclear Association ) or elsewhere. As for conventional large reactors, deep-seated corruption is part of the answer to your question, see https://wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/887/nuclear-monitor-887-17-june-2020 and https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/844/south-koreas-nuclear-mafia
Corruption usually increases costs, not reduce them. So you are saying Korean plants are unsafe?
Cost-cutting corruption has reduced costs and increased safety risks - read the links.