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What if we treated building nuclear more like a manufacturing challenge than a construction challenge? How could nuclear benefit from the tried-and-true methodologies of other large industrial industries like ship-building and oil and gas to make nuclear as cheap as solar and wind to produce?
In this episode â the first of two with leading nuclear fission startup founders â Packy and Julia talk to a new crop of nuclear entrepreneurs who are focused on manufacturing small modular reactors at scale. Drawing on best practices from very different industries like building reactors in shipyards or adapting the methods of offshore oil and gas rigs, these founders are taking a radically different approach from the incumbents in nuclear power plant construction. Tune in to go deep with the people turning theories about nuclear manufacturing into reality.
Follow this episodeâs guests to learn more about what theyâre building: Matt Slotkin, Nick Touran, Bret Kugelmass, Katherine Boyle, Josh Wolfe, and Jake DeWitte
Episode 4 Resources
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â Packy and Juliaâs Top Picks:
- Offshore nuclear power plantsâ
by Nick Touran
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đ©âđŹÂ Nuclear Companies We Talked to:
- Last Energyâ
- Valar Atomicsâ
Isaiah Taylor
- Blue Energyâ
Matt Slotkin
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đ Articles Referenced and Additional Reading
- What is Wrightâs Law?â
- Learning Curvesâ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve
- Reddit Thread on Whether Nuclear Has Negative Learning Curvesâ https://www.reddit.com/r/nuclear/comments/tbcxbu/is_it_true_that_nuclear_everywhere_on_earth_has_a/
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategyâ by Richard Rumelt https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters/dp/0307886239
- Elon Muskâ
by Walter Isaacson
- Integration of learning effects in the design of shipbuilding networksâ by Jan Sender, Benjamin Illgen, Steffen Klink, Wilko FlĂŒgge https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212827121004753
- Offshore Power Systemsâ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_Power_Systems
- Offshore nuclear power plantsâ
by Nick Touran
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đïžÂ Nuclear Podcasts:
- Titans of Nuclear podcastâ
by Bret Kugelmass