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#045 The Future of Nuclear Energy: Politics, Culture, and Technology with Mark Nelson

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Is There a Moore's Law in Advanced Nuclear?

The choice between continued reengineering and scaling the existing technologies is like something that is an obvious to me from what we've talked about so far. I'd put it this way, Eric. Why didn't SpaceX just dust off the old blueprints from back when we made a lot more rockets? And you could maybe reconstruct and then would not give you lots of experience and you could move forward. Well, one of the one of the reasonable arguments for advanced nuclear is that we're having to relearn anyway.

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