Episode 3: The economics of nuclear power

Episode 3 Resources:

⭐ Packy and Julia’s Top picks:

• Why Does Nuclear Power Plant Construction Cost So Much? —
by Brian Potter
https://progress.institute/nuclear-power-plant-construction-costs/
 

• Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear
by the US Department of Energy
https://liftoff.energy.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/20230320-Liftoff-Advanced-Nuclear-vPUB-0329-Update.pdf

📝 Reporting

• What's Really Standing in the Way of a Nuclear Renaissance? —
by Joe Rosenthal and Tracey Alloway
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-23/what-s-really-standing-in-the-way-of-a-nuclear-renaissance?srnd=oddlots&sref=vuYGislZ

• Timeline: How Georgia and South Carolina nuclear reactors ran so far off course—
by Jeff Amy
https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-power-georgia-vogtle-reactors-8fbf41a3e04c656002a6ee8203988fad

• What the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Got Right at Vogtle 3—
by Leigh Anne Lloveras and Adam Stein
https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/the-nrc-delivers-sensible-nuclear-regulation-at-vogtle-3

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• The Economics of nuclear power—
by Dr. Nick Touran
https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html

📺 YouTube Explainers

• How A Nuclear Powerplant Works: 3D Animation—
by Learn from the Base
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMXxXoHtM-o
 

• Nuclear Reactor - Understanding how it works—
by Elearnin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6Nzcv9Vws

• The Economics of Nuclear Energy—
by Real Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_BCz0pzMw