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American Nuclear: Failure to Learn, Destined to Repeat?

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The Crisis in the US Nuclear Industry

I really think that the big crisis that we face in the U.S. right now is that Vogel 4, just I tacked out that term I used before about, it just passed all of its inspections and tests saying that we built it in compliance with the license. The biggest challenge that we have today is how do we build another AP-1000 in the United States? And even if you assume a huge role for women in solar, if we're gonna come close to reading our decarbonization goals, we need hundreds of gigawatts of new nuclear in the US. That's why we're scaling up the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

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