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What do you mean? The lower unit costs is exactly the point of SMRs.


Unit cost of reactor not unit cost of power ?


Indeed, the selling point is probably that a single entity can build an SMR without risk of going bankrupt. Perhaps this speaks to the problem of building consortia of like-minded companies. Currently EDF are being stung for a large chunk of money now that CGN are refusing to put any more cash into Hinkley Point C construction.




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