Countries in the preliminary stages of planning nuclear power projects will be likely to “double down their scrutiny” of small modular reactor offers following the cancellation of NuScale’s agreement with Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (Uamps) for a Voygr SMR project in Idaho.

Writing in his Neutron Bytes blog, nuclear energy analyst Dan Yurman said the lack of cost competitiveness of the NuScale Uamps project will have implications for US-based NuScale’s export opportunities for its Voygr technology in Romania, Poland, and Indonesia.