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小型反应堆有它的一些好处,但不会让核能变得和天然气一样便宜。小型模块式核反应堆的造价相对便宜,操作也更安全,企业和政府也有很大的动力来发展和批准它们。但它们提供的能量的价格足以和天然气竞争吗?它们会真的帮助美国停滞的核能产业复苏吗?去年,美国能源部宣布将为研发小型模块式反应堆的公司提供4.52亿美元的资助,
Small reactors have some of the benefits, but they do not make nuclear energy as cheap as natural gas. Small modular nuclear reactors are cheaper and more secure to operate, and businesses and governments have a great deal of incentive to develop and approve them. But will the price of energy they provide be enough to compete with natural gas? Will they really help to revive the stagnating nuclear industry in the United States? Last year, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it would provide 452 million U.S. dollars for companies developing small modular reactors,