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Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?
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English - June 24, 2024 19:31 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Is overzealous regulation the root cause of the contemporary crisis in deployment of nuclear reactors in the USA? James Krellenstein argues that Nuclear Regulatory Commission critics are trapped in the 1980’s and that the spectre haunting today’s deployments are not primarily regulatory. Due to simplified systems and lower material costs modern NRC approved passive reactors should be cheaper than complex Gen 2 reactors. In addition there are 17GWe worth of combined construction and operating licenses in the USA ready to go. All that and more on this week’s episode.