A sketch of the proposed Utah plant.
In the 1990s, South Africa started work on small, modular nuclear reactors that promised to be safer and cheaper than the likes of Koeberg Nuclear Power Station in Cape Town and the latest generation of plants being sold by the likes of Russia.
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