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DeWahl: 100% 24/7 solar and battery storage costs rival nuclear
“Actually to get true hundred percent, 24 seven coverage, the battery or the excess build out is massive. It is really expensive. It's on, it's like basically on par with nuclear costs.”
DeWahl: NRC rules now mandate licensing decisions within 18 months
“Right now, there's they've changed it to, you have 18 months to get your answer from the NRC. License or no license, like, do, do you pass or not?”
DeWahl: US Buys Almost 50% of Its Uranium From Russia and Ex-Soviet States
“And yeah, we're still buying, like, almost 50% of our uranium from Russia and, kind of, ex-Soviet states.”
DeWahl: US Government Plans $80B Nuclear Partnership with Westinghouse
“The announcement is that the U.S. Government now wants to spend eighty billion dollars on nuclear development alongside Westinghouse.”
DeWahl: Brookfield Moving to Complete Abandoned V.C. Summer Nuclear Plant
“There's a huge, like, trillion asset, trillion dollar asset under management company called Brookfield Asset Management, and they they've actually just gotten in the game as well. In the last couple weeks, I'm sure there was, like, talk, right? Yeah, yeah. To …”
DeWahl: Microsoft and Constellation are restarting Three Mile Island
“That's being brought up back online, partnership between Microsoft and Constellation, I believe.”
DeWahl: US missile defense sites still rely on diesel generators
“Our, you know, our missile defense sites are sitting there, like, being powered by diesel generators still, like, shouldn't we upgrade that?”
DeWahl: 50% of Afghanistan War casualties were tied to logistics
“I mean, it was 50% of the, I think the Afghanistan casualties were from just logistics.”
DeWahl: State-level nuclear energy bans are falling across the US
“There's actually many states in the US that have bans as well, but they've just been falling left and right.”
DeWahl: Nuclear energy support surged nearly 20 points to over 60%
“The, like, percentage point change we've seen in the last five to 10 years is almost 20 points. I mean, it's like 17 points or something. Yes. So it's 60 plus percent of people support nuclear.”
DeWahl: US Army Janus Program to Fund 3 to 5 Prototype Nuclear Reactors
“The Army has taken that model a bit, and I think used that as inspiration for this Janus program, where they're saying, we're going to fund up to kind of three to five companies to build their first prototype alongside us, kind of at a base, and then we will k…”
DeWahl: US Military Is Largest Buyer of Non-Commodity Energy
“The largest buyer of non-commodity energy, if not all energy.”
DeWahl: No nuclear micro-reactors are commercially available today
“Well, the market for micro-reactors is one of these ones where it's like, well, there are no micro-reactors today on the market to just like buy and use.”
DeWahl: Uranium is a million times as energy dense as coal
“Uranium, while it does require, you know, digging out of the ground or whatever, it's so much easier to store. It's a million times as dense as coal, right?”
DeWahl: Only 1% of US Nuclear Fuel Was Domestically Mined Over Last Decade
“The last 10 years or so, it's been, like, one percent of nuclear fuel used in the U.S. Was actually domestically mined.”