Small modular nuclear reactors are having their moment.

The Trump administration is pushing to speed development. The likes of Google and Meta are signing on. In Colorado, the law now counts nuclear as clean energy and Colorado Springs and Pueblo County are considering the technology.

A Pueblo advisory committee even concluded that after Xcel Energy’s coal-fired Comanche power plant closes, the community can only be “made whole,” with a small modular reactor, or SMR.

The Denver International Airport briefly flirted with the idea of an SMR to power the airport’s growth.

The only thing missing is an actual SMR. In the U.S., one has won building permits and others are close, but to see an operating SMR one must head to Russia or China. They each have one. Japan has a test reactor.

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