First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled | Ars Technica
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With the price of renewables dropping precipitously, however, the project’s economics have worsened, and backers started pulling out of the project.
The final straw came on Wednesday, when #NuScale and the primary utility partner, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems, announced that the Carbon Free Power Project no longer had enough additional utility partners, so it was being canceled. In a statement, the pair accepted that “it appears unlikely that the project will have enough subscription to continue toward deployment.”