Yep, small scale reactors have been around the corner for many years now.
Old article about what's taking so long at the link including some already built but not yet commercially available. In more careful countries pilot plants would need to run without issues for a while before getting approval to be mass produced. When reaching commercial stage Australia would likely go on a waiting list for product delivery unless we partook in the development.
SMR nuclear 2.0 touted as solving bespoke large nuclear reactor problems.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines SMRs as advanced nuclear-fission reactors that have a power generation capacity of up to 300MW per unit – around a third of the capacity of traditional reactors.
SMRs are not forecast to hit the commercial market before 2030, and although SMRs are expected to have lower up-front capital costs per reactor, their economic competitiveness is still to be proven in practice once they are deployed at scale.
