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Going Deep on the Energy Crisis and Nuclear Power with Mark Nelson (Part 2 of 2) 🔌⚡️💡

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What Is a Modular Reactor?

Nuclear plants are kind of going to take 4 to 10 years to construct and then they're going to last for, what, 80, 100 years. The more you change, the less we can verify going into the project that the project will perform well day to day and last for an extremely long time. When I'm dealing with folks in positions of power and authority in developing countries who need a reactor, they often don't even want to hear a word about reactors that they cannot go visit and touch today. That's good enough for me. And what we're doing with the SMRs is so decrepit in many ways it may have taken eight or nine years at the end; but

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