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#045 The Future of Nuclear Energy: Politics, Culture, and Technology with Mark Nelson
Smart Friends
Getting More Life Out of Nuclear Reactors
Most of these plants can be operated. You can build slightly larger parts around the core. Do some careful safety studies. Change some operating processes. And then you can operate these reactors at sometimes five, 10, 15%, 20% more power than originally designed. One of the horrible things about the French mismanagement of their world leading reactor fleet is that they're one of the only countries on earth that have refused to operate their existing reactor. It's practically free. What 15, 20% operates across the entire fleet are possible and they just haven't. That is civilization shaking. That is society ending if they can't find a way to fix it.
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