Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it. 
Nuclear generation is expensive and slow to develop. Claims that past failures won’t recur have convinced politicians to socialize investments rejected by private capital markets. Published Sept. 5, 2025, By Amory B. Lovins

Small Modular Reactors and the Big Questions of Cost & Waste. Clean Tecnica. By Michael Barnard. SMRs are advertised as cheaper, safer, faster to build, and easier to finance than traditional large reactors. The new study, published in Progress in Nuclear Energy, takes a sober look at those claims and finds them wanting. It does not dismiss nuclear power outright, but it asks hard questions that should matter to policymakers, investors, and utilities deciding whether to commit public money and grid space to SMRs.