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Lovering: Lack of demand-pull policy drove high US nuclear costs
“What's really been missing with nuclear in terms of policy to help bring down the cost is that demand pull policy. And so this is why you see that nuclear is cheaper and gets cheaper over time in places that have a lot of growth in demand for electricity becau…”
Lovering: Standardized series reactor construction drives down nuclear costs
“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, …”
Lovering: Nuclear Costs Are Driven by Engineering and Management, Not Materials
“A lot of the cost of nuclear is, is not necessarily in, like, concrete and steel. It's a lot of, like, engineering and design costs and project management”
Lovering: Nuclear costs are high because plants are built like custom infrastructure
“Why is nuclear so expensive, is that they're still built, like, large infrastructure projects. It's not like building a car or an airplane. It's like building a highway or hydroelectric dam or a bridge. Each one's very unique, and so these, you know, secondary…”
Lovering: Passive safety lowers advanced nuclear manufacturing and O&M costs
“A lot of them rely on passive safety. So it's safety that's derived from physical processes, not engineered systems. And why that matters in a simple way Way to explain it is that you can have much simpler engineering, so it reduces complexity in the design, a…”
Lovering: Factory-fabricated nuclear reactors require aircraft-style bulk licensing
“What will be needed is if we're doing really modular plants, like factory fabricated reactors, that will definitely need a regulatory change, because we don't have those sorts of bulk licenses, like you do for aircraft manufacturing.”