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American Nuclear: Failure to Learn, Destined to Repeat?

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The Importance of Standardization in Nuclear Construction

Inflationary environment in the United States really played a very large role, as well as just the labor crunch that we were seeing across the sector. The French literally came, as you may know, to Beaver Valley nuclear power plant out in Pennsylvania, which is a Westinghouse three loop. That was the basis of Fessenheim in France, by the German border,. And that became the basis of the CPY, a standardized 900 megawatt electrical French fleet. But it's a French, with Fremma-Tome, with this joint venture initially with Westinghouse, we're basically building one plant and just copying it over and over and over again; knowing the most minor

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