Nuclear Reactor

“We want to make thousands of reactors, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.”

“There were actually 52 nuclear reactors built at Idaho National Laboratory in a 21 year span, the last of which was in 1977, and none since then.”

“So we are designed to operate at .97. So that means you never have enough neutrons to keep the reaction going. The reaction will always fizzle out. So no matter what you do, it's going to fizzle out. But normally that would mean you get no power output. What y…”

“Most reactors, the big ones, people think about gigawatt scale reactors. They need that you, the uranium enriched to about three to five percent U two 35. And then the small ones, 19.75% is where everyone's ending up”

“We actually put one reactor into space in the 19 sixties to test that out.”

“If people want to have fun with reactors, you know that's fine. Have fun with reactors. But it's not a serious endeavor compared to the sun. You know, it's sort of a fun, it's a fun science project to make a nuclear reactor, but it's not it's not, it's just pe…”

“My opinion is that the rate of solar deployment will go up so fast as the costs continue to go down that it might just not matter. That we'll have so, it'll be so easy and low cost to deploy solar and storage that the economics of building nuclear reactors jus…”

“They're going to build a 150 nuclear reactors. So they're going to have enough energy, even though their chips aren't as energy efficient.”

“If this was The reactor, and the vessel was out of tolerance, you would have a, it could be fatal to the project, depending on what you're looking at, or at least would be a huge delay, because you wouldn't have to just replace the vessel, you'd have to do roo…”

“Most places you can get interconnected faster than you can build the new nuclear reactor.”

“They're building reactors faster and therefore cheaper, and they've got 20 plus under construction right now.”

“They have a 150 plus nuclear reactors in some state of deployment.”

“They're also turning on innovative types of reactors that were invented in the United States in the seventies and eighties. And they sort of sat on the shelf and we never really tackled them. We ran into a bunch of regulatory roadblocks and then we never turne…”

“This was sort of a theory for a long time, but it's actually proven now that this did happen in Europe over the last 10 years. So Russian groups funded far left environmental groups in Germany to shut the reactors down in order, you know, to make it so that Ge…”

“Nuclear reactors are steam engines and steam engines operate on what's called the Brayton cycle. And there are certain irreducible costs associated with, you know, steam turbines and so on that, that just drive the cost up. And that's, even if NRC didn't exist…”

“When you're getting a new reactor design approved, you have to have an actual hearing for things that are completely uncontested.”

“We're sitting in you know, probably your three wood distance from two nuclear reactors that are banging out two and a half gigs of clean power.”

“And now, with all of the additional incentives, you can build a new nuclear reactor, as long as, you know, get some of the bonus credits, like energy communities, etc., at a hundred dollars a megawatt hour. Guess what else is a hundred dollars a megawatt hour?…”

“And the goal, I think, is by 20, 25, 26, right, when OPG is in full construction for there to be 20 orders that come in, right, and I think I think once that happens, then I think all the electric utilities will come very quickly, because they have a huge amou…”

“Fuel costs are a relatively small percentage of operating a plant. People who don't know nuclear economics that well maybe assume that light coal or gas plant feedstock is 80% of running. It's flipped on its head for a nuclear reactor. It's all Upfront, CapEx,…”

“The Inflation Reduction Act earmarking thirty billion dollars for tax credits towards existing nuclear reactors, a first for the US.”