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

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Is There a Market for Nuclear Energy?

Nuclear energy is best thought of as a program. It only really gets built when there's an extremely long time horizon to recoup costs. In many grids around the world now, old power plants are running down and declining. If you make an electricity system that does not guarantee that investors in high capital cost plants can recoup their investments they won't do it.

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