Denver’s mayor and airport chief touted a $1.25 million study Wednesday probing the chances of a “small” nuclear power plant to feed DIA’s rapid growth, but questions about the idea instantly reached criticality.

DIA chief executive Phil Washington said considering a “small modular reactor,” or SMR, as one alternative for the megawatts needed for airport growth would help Denver be “the masters of our own energy fate,” and that the study using airport money is not a commitment to any plan.

Critics immediately shot back with a long list of challenges for the world’s sixth largest airport going nuclear, among them:

None of the highly touted modular reactors have been permitted, let alone completed, anywhere in the United States.

Nuclear power plants consistently sustain billions of dolla

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