>Some layman will post one article about a SMR that's like 20 years out from commercialization

Out of curiosity, what do you think of Rolls Royce's efforts? Their first commercial SMR is supposed to power up 6 years from now. I imagine I will probably be disappointed with that timeline, but their previous experience with nuclear submarines, and that they are going the generic and not reinvent everything route makes me think it may be possible.

Really? strange that people would invest in google then, which doesnt pay a dividend, or amazon, which also doesnt pay a dividend.

I'm not completely against dividends, but the leverage shareholders can apply to maximise it is often against the interests of company and country.

A cap of some kind on the percent of profit that can be given out as a dividend, or something akin to that might be ideal, as it would cause more to be reinvested and more money to be kept in the host country.

Hopefully we get a mild winter and none of that happens. There is so much stored up gas in europe that can also be used by the UK, and so much LNG readied, as well as increased domestic production and storage in the UK now.

I hate the dividends system. When it's not syphoning money out of the country, then it's strangling growth at a company when the braindead shareholders elect a board with the goal of maximising the dividend they receive instead of reinvesting the profit back into the company for greater long term growth.