Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026: Is anyone bullish on SMRs?

Posted: 25th August 2026

It didn’t take short sellers long to figure out they could make a $2 billion killing on the SMR market. It seems Wall Street doesn’t love companies with no revenue and no actual product on the horizon.

Is anyone bullish on SMRs?

Predicting that the small modular reactor hype is precisely that, short sellers just grabbed $2bn in profits as small modular nuclear reactor stocks tumbled. They easily foresaw that the propaganda balloon was about to burst, revealing a lot of empty promises and little to zero revenue. Some companies, like Deep Fission, are still trying to row against the tide, displaying props and putting out yet more hype. But a headline in June after the company went public, ran: “Deep Fission (FISN): A Mile Deep, and Already Underwater.” .READ MORE

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