nuclear power

“You know, on average, it makes about nine percent of the world's energy. In the U.S., it makes just under 20% and does make the majority of the U.S.'s clean power, which is a pretty important piece of it.”

“Nuclear power has produced, you know, a lot of energy for decades right? Producing 20% of our energy for, well, I don't, 30 plus, 40 plus years, and then before that as well. And the amount of waste it's produced would fit on a football field, being like, you …”

“The truth is that when you look at the United States and you look at France, two of the places that have built the most reactors in the world, you see reverse learning curves, actually, when it comes to the cost of nuclear power. It actually increased over tim…”

“I believe that renewables are not all we'll ever need for power sector decarbonization. Like, I do think we need some additional form of very power-dense, you know, something that can replace coal power from a land use standpoint. Something on, you know, new, …”

“If you, if we just like went into those facilities, like looked at the blueprints and the Built them exactly how they were built. We would decarbonize the entire planet, and every human being would have energy that's, like, five times cheaper than they're payi…”

“Nuclear power has a mean cost overrun of a 120%. And 55% of projects have a 50% plus cost overrun.”

“Really what, you know, what makes nuclear cheap and where nuclear is cheapest, whether you're looking at history or where it's cheap currently, it's where, you Countries and utilities are building a lot of reactors in series of a standardized design. And the, …”

“The Vogel project, which just finished in the U.S., is, is probably at the high end. I think the project that just came online in Finland is probably up at this level as well. It's about 8000 dollars per kilowatt, so four times more.”

“In the US, nuclear, existing nuclear power, the electricity generated is the second cheapest only after hydroelectric.”

“I would say that the cheapest nuclear in the world, and I'm so glad that your audience can understand if I say dollars per kilowatt is in South Korea, and that's about 2200 dollars per kilowatt.”

“I think that the gauntlet makes it all but certain that that's one pathway we will turn towards.”

“When you look at the capital cost per kilowatt of nuclear with everything that is known today, it's much more expensive than even highly curtailed renewables.”

“In many markets, that's competitive with wind, solar, and batteries. In many markets, that just beats nuclear cold.”

“So I would say none of them because they all require Large capital investments that require certainty and we are in a period of massive uncertainty across the board. So I would actually say I'm fairly bearish on all of those in the near term because I actually…”

“Nukes are probably five or 10 or more years out. New gas generation. You can't get a new gas generator for probably four or six years at the very shortest. And so the most immediate and economical solution is really that those renewables and batteries.”

“I don't think we're gonna see, we might see a little bit, you know, in the 2030, early 20 thirties time frame, but I think for the most part we're talking 2035 and beyond when we, when we'd actually have new nuclear power at scale coming online.”

“Nuclear, my own view is really never gonna look great from a pure economic basis on paper, relative to, say, just more natural gas power generation, unless we have, like, significant gas, natural gas resource constraints, which we might have bottlenecks in, in…”