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

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Are the Regulations on Electricity More Cumbersome Than the Regulation on Nuclear Technology?

The rules for who gets to generate electricity and when and how they get paid have been deregulating, he says. This has had a terrible effect on certain technologies, not because of characteristics about whether they keep society safe or not; it's merely by how they have to make investment decisions. "You're only supposed to think on three or four-year time horizons" in most of the West,. He adds.

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