Small module reactors not necessarily safer or more economical

A meeting of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on June 7 questioned the US Department of Energy on why a program to manufacture and export small modular nuclear reactors is not yet up and running. Instead of concerning itself with the fact that the rest of the world - and Germany especially - is poised to overtake the US in renewable energy manufacture and deployment, Senators focused on another nuclear non-started. Ed Lyman, physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, testified, pointing out that smaller reactors were not necessarily safer or more economical. Read Lyman's testimony here.