To make nuclear cheap, you have to build at scale, the same design, over and over again. Lots of them. China does this. No one else today is. A small nuclear industry isn't viable in the US. Only a nuclear industry building lots of reactors is.
John Bistline
John Bistline29.7.2025
Interesting article in Nature suggests China has driven down nuclear power plant costs and kept them stable over two decades, beating the "cost escalation curse" with local supply chains and standardized designs. I wonder how much is transferable to other country contexts.
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