Opinion
Jurowicz: Gen-IV reactors solve problems the industry does not currently face
“The things, the problems that Gen-Fur reactors solve are not the problems we're faced right now, we're facing right now. We just need a lot of low-cost, affordable nuclear power. We don't have to reinvent the wheel.”
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Jurowicz: Nuclear is the only power source enabling decades of fuel stockpiling
“You can actually safe harbor and stockpile years, even decades, of a nation's worth of fuel and energy in the form of uranium and nuclear fuel. You can't do that with any other power generation technology. You can't do that with gas. You can't do that with coa…”
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Jurowicz: Nuclear power has never been commercially project financed
“Nuclear power has never been project financed before. It has always been financed on the backs of taxpayers and ratepayers because it's been so prone to construction risk.”
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Jurowicz: Blue Energy will energize nuclear turbines early using natural gas
“We are gonna build half a nuclear plant. We're gonna build the whole nuclear balance of plant, the nuclear steam turbine system, and then we're gonna energize it early with the steam From two combustion gas turbines and their heat recovery steam generators. So…”
Insight
Jurowicz: New natural gas generation exposes AI providers to massive commodity risks
“Everyone's taking on an enormous amount of gas risk right now with all the new gas generation being built. Gas risk in the sense of gas is a volatile commodity in terms of price. Gas supply lines can be interrupted. If the EPA cracks down on emissions regulati…”
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Jurowicz: Reactor equipment accounts for only 7% of nuclear build costs
“The reactor and the nuclear equipment are not the reason nuclear plants are expensive. If you look at historical data, it only represents about seven percent of the cost of historical builds.”
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Jurowicz: China and South Korea construct nuclear at $3,000 per kilowatt
“In China, they're doing it for 3000 dollars a kilowatt, similar, you know, similar price points with South Korea.”
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Jurowicz: Accrued financing interest accounts for a third of nuclear project costs
“Because these things are taking 10 plus years to build, the interest accrues, and that ends up being a third of the total project cost.”
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Jurowicz: Blue Energy cannot deliver 1 GW capacity by 2027-2028
“Some of these hyperscalers are, like, laser focused on, like, twenty-twenty-seven, twenty-twenty-eight, and, like, there's no world in which we're going to provide a gigawatt capacity that quickly at least using this kind of technology.”
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Jurowicz: Fuel stockpiling advantages will be priced into future infrastructure decisions
“I think this attribute is standing out to make nuclear really unique, and I think it's going to get priced into, ah, how you're starting to see energy infrastructure decisions get made.”
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Jurowicz: GE's BWRX-300 uses proven metallurgy from the past 70 years
“There, there's a reason that G-Vernova and G-Vernova Hitachi is who we're partnering with. It's a mature 10th generation. We get to say it's a 10th generation boiling water reactor technology. It's called the BWRX 300 because the X stands for 10th generation. …”
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Jurowicz: Blue Energy is exploring the development of an automated SMR factory
“We are currently in the process of looking at what it would take to make the first fully automated well, kind of called the first SMR factory, so to really strip out a lot of the manual labor that goes into building the civil structure of the plant.”
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Jurowicz: Plant Vogtle cost approximately $15,000 per kilowatt to construct
“Vogel, the most recently built nuclear plant in the U.S., came in at about 15,000 dollars per kilowatt.”
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Jurowicz: Venture Global raised over $35B in project finance for modular LNG
“So they did this and it cut the construction time in half. It allowed them to fully project finance what was a first of a kind project down in Louisiana. And now they've done over thirty five billion in project finance this way and scaled it up very quickly.”
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Jurowicz: The NRC's only manufacturing license was issued in 1982
“There was a joint venture between Westinghouse and Newport News Shipbuilding called Offshore Power Systems during the 19 seventies to build eight
Four loop PWRs in a shipyard down in Jacksonville, Florida, and float them up to New Jersey for PSAG, and they a…”
