⚛️ A final (and lasting?) nuclear revival: My chat with nuclear energy advocate Jessica Lovering

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world:

Headlines abound with news of the coming nuclear renaissance — a long-awaited era of clean, abundant energy to power our future. But this is hardly the first time the media has heralded the dawn of the atomic age. Still, this round of nuclear optimism is seeing unprecedented corporate investment, more cost-effective modular reactors, and a greater sense of political consensus.

Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I chat with Jessica Lovering about past obstacles to growth, and what we might expect from the US going forward.

Lovering is an advocate for nuclear power currently based in Sweden. She is the co-founder and former executive director of the Good Energy Collective, as well as a senior fellow with the Nuclear Innovation Alliance and the Energy for Growth Hub. She also authors her own Substack, Nuclear Power to the People.

In This Episode

* The lost Atomic Age (1:30)

* To regulate or not to regulate (8:26)

* Reactor capacity past and future (10:44)

* The economics of nuclear (14:51)

* Power projection (18:32)

* The new nuclear status quo (24:04)

(A lightly edited transcript of our conversation will be appear in my Week in Review issue on Saturday. Another option is using the Substack auto transcript function.)

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