@emmysteuer: After 50 years of the NRC acting as a de facto nuclear blockade, the regulatory dam is finally cracking, hyperscalers a…
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Discusses the cracking of nuclear regulatory barriers, driven by hyperscalers' demand for energy, and highlights key thinkers on the shift.
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After 50 years of the NRC acting as a de facto nuclear blockade, the regulatory dam is finally cracking, hyperscalers are pre-ordering reactors faster than anyone can build them, and the real fight has moved from asking if nuclear is even safe to how can we execute this as fast as possible.
Three people shaped how I think about it now: @ChrisKoopman on why the regulatory shift is real, @packyM on the data center demand driving it, and @Fredrickson on how Montana passed Right to Compute by talking to ranchers instead of tech people.
Full breakdown in the video.
Why are you anti nuclear?
I see what you mean. I agree I think nuclear has had some seriously rough issues over the years. But I also think at least 50% of the problem has genuinely been regulatory based
But also keep in mind that my videos are incredibly short and it’s hard to stuff fully formed opinions into them
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