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Aaron Sheldrick

Small modular reactors are a 'chimera' for now

As debate about nuclear reactor driven energy continues, an academy has downplayed the idea. (Tracey Nearmy/AAP PHOTOS)

Small modular reactors won't be fully commercially available till the late 2040s at least, an independent grouping of Australia's top technologists says.

Amid the public debate that erupted when the federal opposition announced its nuclear policy in June, the learned academy has released a report examining the reactors from a technology and engineering standpoint and found them wanting.

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