Jurowicz: Blue Energy is exploring the development of an automated SMR factory
Jake Jurowicz · Did someone just figure out how to project finance nuclear? · Aug 12, 2026 · at 47:17
Jake Jurowicz is the CEO of Blue Energy, discussing how the company approaches nuclear plant construction and automated modular manufacturing.
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“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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