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How Can Nuclear Construction Costs Be Reduced?

January 24, 2013, 2:45PMANS Nuclear CafeJim Hopf

This month's post discusses my ideas on an issue I've been thinking about for awhile.  Although we have four new reactors under construction in the United States (at Vogtle and Summer), the nuclear "renaissance" has so far not been nearly as strong as many had hoped. This begs the question as to what is holding nuclear back.

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