Here let me help you out,
NuScale’s first potential customer is the Utah Association of Municipal Power Systems, which will apply to license the first NuScale power plant, to be located in Idaho and operated by Energy Northwest. By the end of this year, NuScale expects to apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for certification of its reactor design, a process that could take several years. NuScale estimates that construction of the reactor will be completed in 36 months and that electricity production will begin by 2023.
But that’s not soon enough. NRC needs to expedite the certification process, so that NuScale can begin to market its reactor globally. China already has an SMR under construction between Beijing and Shanghai. A failure to act expeditiously will undermine the sale of U.S. reactors to other countries. It will place the nation’s nuclear industry at a disadvantage in competing for global nuclear sales that the Department of Commerce projects will be worth many hundreds of billions of dollars in coming decades.
Consider the potential value of the NuScale SMR. Its simple design reduces many of the complex and large systems such as pumps, valves and piping found in today’s nuclear power plants. As a result, the NuScale plant is safer and less expensive to build and operate than conventional reactors.
I think I will take a PHD's opinion who worked at a national laboratory over someone who works at a dirt burner. 
that's pretty harsh,..
allow me to remind us all of some modern facts about US industrial capabilities,....
Fitzpatrick's generator (circa 1975) was built by GE in Schenectady, New York
Prairie Island's two new generators (circa 2015) are built by Mitsubishi in Kobe, Japan,...
Yankee Rowe's steam generators (circa 1959) were built by B&W in Pittsburgh, Pa (IIRC),...
SONGS steam generators (circa 2008) were built by Mitsubishi in Kobe, Japan,...
I could go on but you should get the idea,...
NuScale's most recent focus is to build in the UK (Rolls-Royce) and sell to China,...
Why?
Continued "foot dragging" in the US of A beauracracy,...
the work in Oregon, the offices in Maryland, the matching funds from the NRC, the proposal for an INL pilot plant, et al, are all just a lot of the same Washington to academia R&D grants, to political lobbying, to national lab boondoggle jobs programs BS that has brought us (the US of A citizenry) hundreds of PhDs working for decades of real time and millions of funded man-hours at national labs, universities, public interest start up companies, et al,
BUT!!!!!!!!,...
still no fusion,...
in the end, the NIMBYs will rule the day (except in Texas and other points in the SE which I waxed eloquent on once before) and there will be no SMRs in the US of A outside of south of the M-D line and east of the Pecos,...
and the SE probably does not need the new capacity in the near future beyond the current old school light waters in COL,...
there are no Westinghouse's, GE's, CB&I's, B&W's and others with a dog in this race,...
Rerun is more right than Marlin on this one, albeit more pithy than I,....
almost forgot,...peace,...GLW,...
