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Vendors like BWXT are unlikely to admit it, but these small reactors may still be too expensive to build and operate in a competitive market. (BWXT declined to comment for this article.) Harnessing nuclear energy remains an enormously complicated engineering feat, and the cost of building mPower’s reactor module alone could run to hundreds of millions of dollars. With natural gas at record-low prices, thanks in part to fracking, and wind and solar energy becoming cheaper every year because of…