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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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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. …”
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.”
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.”
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…”