NuScale uses a light water reactor—by far the most common type of reactor in commercial nuclear power plants—but that’s about where the similarities end. NuScale’s reactor is 65 feet tall and 9 feet in diameter, and is housed in a containment vessel only slightly larger. About the size of two school buses stacked end to end, you could fit around 100 of them in the containment chamber of a large conventional reactor. Yet this small reactor can crank out 60 megawatts of energy, which is about one-tenth the smallest operational reactor in the US today.

...Но да речем постепенно всичко може да се автоматизира

- Hey, Harry.
- Yeah, Rock?
- You know, we're sittin' on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon, and a thing that has 270000 moving parts,
built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
- Yeah.

ВВЕР-1000, използван в България, не е особено по-голям от тая чикия, а е 1000MW. Размерът на реактора не е най-определящото за размера на АЕЦ-а.