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On October 1, 2026, industry assessments evaluated the commercial maturity and capital horizon for small modular reactor (SMR) developers, noting that while the technology is nearing an industrial inflection point driven by rising clean energy demand from artificial intelligence data centers, broad deployment for firms like NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR) remains a long--term trajectory extending toward 2030 and beyond. A sector study from Bank of America projected nuclear power to represent a $10 trillion global market over the coming decades, with SMRs expected to generate up to 20% of global nuclear power by 2050 as modular factory fabrication and advanced safety designs mature. However, analysts underscored that despite NuScale's technological lead with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission design certification, high capital intensity and extended construction timelines will require developers to navigate multi--year cash burn before achieving commercial--scale profitability.