you may be confusing blackstarts with baseloads,...
SMR stations could be blackstarts,...
but those are not real,...
hydro is,...
now, SMRs on a current PWR/BWR nuke site?!?!?!?! maybe,...
BUT!!!, that all requires ENERGY POLICY which we we do not have on a coast to coast consistent plan,...
we have a mish mosh of moderately regulated to loosely regulated ISOs, and other initialisms where basically the market promotes a paradigm of,...
"build cheap, big output natural gas plants and burn through the natural gas commodity of this nation until it's gone lettin tomorrow figure out what to do when tomorrow comes",.....
okay, I'm done,...for now,...