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#361 | Emmet Penney: Roadblocks to a Nuclear Renaissance, the Broken Energy Grid, and the Decarbonization Challenge

The Realignment

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The Problems With Nuclear

Nuclear power doesn't really benefit from innovation, right? It benefits from repetition. So scale like building a lot of the same thing. You want to be like rubber, you know, rubber stamping it out. But there's not really an appetite in the utility industry for that for all sorts of reasons. I would say this, I think conservatives have actually been more in favor of nuclear except for a certain clutch of libertarians that don't like that it basically needs to fit into a monopoly utility model for a long time. The Democrats have a major problem with their policy with wind and solar like the people who generate these white papers or these black box models.

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