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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?

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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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