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

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Is the Customer of a Nuclear Power Plant a Guarantee?

In deregulated electricity markets, the customers are whoever would sign an agreement with that plant. In Finland, any new reactor going in there is expected to be paid for, financed ahead of time by entities that want a share of the electricity itself. So where we're seeing nuclear success, the customer ends up being a guarantee by the government that your power will be sold at a certain price.

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