Small modular reactors are modern. And it's where the majority of the research is happening.

It's a bit of a chicken and the egg situation right now. Once the factories ramp up, they'll be pumping out some of the cheapest power producers by MW ever designed.

Unfortunately, those factories can't ramp up until the sales start coming in, and the sales aren't coming in because without the factories going full steam ahead, it's incredibly expensive to make the reactors.

Solar and wind had the exact same problem back in the day. They just didn't have two separate lobbying groups trying to kill them off.