
Ep 350: Scott Bailey - Vice President of Supply Chain, NuScale Power
Titans Of Nuclear | Interviewing World Experts on Nuclear Energy
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The Cost of Adding Modules to a Coal Plant
The economics just get better the more modules that you have. We fit right on coal sites and can use the existing infrastructure. So, trying to get that balance, it was 12 units for the longest time was considered the optimum size. And then when we went to the 77 megawatts electric per unit, then we got better into a sweet spot where people felt that 462 was a great place for them to be.
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