In the wake of the AI boom, they have become an enormously hot topic with regard to the power supply of data centers: small nuclear reactors, usually simply called SMRs for short. While as reported Big Tech companies like Meta, Amazon, or Google are already investing massively in this area, Europe has so far been rather hesitant on the subject. The EU Commission wants to change that now and is pushing hard for SMRs. The European Commission has presented a strategy for the development and