Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025

Posted: 16th December 2025

The small modular reactor bubble - all hot air anyway - is about to burst and maybe sooner than we think, argues Ben Kritz of the Manila Times. And Dr. Ian Fairlie exposes the real agenda behind the UK government’s push to expand nuclear power.

SMR balloon is about to burst

“One sign that the excessively hyped concept of small modular reactors is now living on borrowed time is the lack of enthusiasm in the outlook from energy market analysts,” writes Ben Kritz. Consequently, some financial experts are predicting that there will be no nuclear boom and that instead the “SMR bubble” will burst before the end of the decade or sooner. READ MORE

Why Britain doesn’t need nukes

The UK government continues to tout new reactors but they aren’t needed, will be far too expensive and remain designs on paper, says Ian Fairlie, an independent radiation scientist and a vice president at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. What’s driving governmental enthusiasm is not electricity needs but that nuclear power serves as the key driver for nuclear weapons. READ MORE

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