Yes Lizzie, but then the 'mini' reactors are the size of a couple of football fields!
They are better than what we have got at the moment.
Nuclear has gone waaaaay ahead since our outdated 1950/60's technology and much safer.
Not in this country though!
CCGT's can run on oil and gas. Jet engines basically.
Thank you Mr Whittle!
J
Maybe once covered in a building but the basic concept is a good one and it is smaller than existing nuclear power stations.
This is from the Rolls Royce brouchure on their product: Be so compact (16 metres high and 4 metres in diameter) it
can be transported by truck, train or even barge.
• Sit within a power station that would be roughly five
and half times the size of the pitch at Wembley, which is
just one-tenth the size of a typical large-scale reactor site
(40,000m2 vs 400,000m2).
• Take just 5 years from the start of construction to the
generation of the first electricity.
• Be up and running by 2028, maximising the UK’s
first-mover advantage in the race for exports.
• Minimise operating costs such as refuelling and the burden
of decommissioning
See:
https://www.rolls-royce.com/~/media/Files/R/Rolls-Royce/documents/customers/nuclear/smr-brochure-july-2017.pdf 
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