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MacroVoices #355 Mark Nelson: Understanding All Things Nuclear

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Is There a Business Justification for a Nuclear Plant?

There are some countries building renewables so quickly that the business model of building nuclear on the grid may be itself disrupted. A new technology from NetPower could give a path around nuclear for those places able to make natural gas turbines work and dispose of CO2. And then there's one more, one more way I see nuclear going very badly. If we have so thoroughly damaged our energy supplies, which had been steadily growing and growing and growing  for a hundred, 150 years,. We do not secure our own source of abundant wealth by building energy like nuclear. It may be that nuclear has less of a future because we and complex society hasLess of a future. Rich countries got rich on coal

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