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The US unfortunately has almost built no standardized / modular reactors. Everyone was custom. That is why they were so expansive to build.

SNUPPS and the AP-1000 are the only "standardized" nuclear power plant designs built in the US and there were only a small number of them built. Not enough to benefit from economies of scale benefits through standardization and modularization.



According to the list on Wikipedia, the existing reactors in the US are just a few different models [1]. Looks quite standardized to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...


Just look at the capacity numbers, they are different from each other. Even WH 4/3-loops are wildly different from each other.




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