What are the advantages of small modular reactors over conventional nuclear reactors?

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Small modular reactors (SMRs) are intended to be less expensive, easier, and faster to build, and they are suitable for remote and industrial locations away from existing electrical grids. Still, SMRs can be integrated into standing electrical grids. They can also be integrated, or “stacked,” with one another to generate more power, and, like conventional nuclear power plants, SMRs offer the promise of electricity without carbon emissions.