Fred Turner is the CEO of Curative and co-founder of nuclear energy startup Subcritical. He discusses why nuclear energy adoption faces regulatory obstacles rather than fundamental engineering challenges.
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“That it is very safe. And that it's not a science or engineering problem. Like that was when we started looking at companies to invest in, that was for me, that the thing that I was sort of disappointed by is everybody was approaching it as if nuclear is this massive engineering challenge. And sure, like the engineering is hard. It is complicated. But fundamentally, we have built safe nuclear reactors since the sixties. They work great. The technology has not really changed or progressed since then. We know how to build these. That's not the problem.”
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