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The Difficult Road to Commercialization for Nuclear Startups

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission turned down Ochlopower LLC's 2020 application. The NRC did not find any safety issues regarding the design only that the information gap could affect further review. McKinsey estimates we need 400 to 800 gigawatts of new nuclear globally by 2050. In the U.S., the Department of Energy estimates we may need to triple nuclear capacity by mid-century from 100 gigawatts to 300 gigawatts in the electricity sector.

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