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At the centre Most of the nuclear industry is a modelling and simulation business producing paper reactors, not a business that builds them. Holds ITIsaiah Taylor Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Small modular reactors are the right idea, but you only reach them by iterating on real hardware -- which is what everyone else missed. Holds ITIsaiah Taylor
• Similar wording Nuclear is a hardware execution problem, not a design problem, and the companies treating it as a design problem are mistaken. Holds ITIsaiah Taylor
• Similar wording Nuclear has never had its Ford moment: reactors have to be manufactured rather than constructed before fission can be cheap. Holds ITIsaiah Taylor
• Similar wording Nuclear's costs are largely fake -- an industry that has not built anything in forty years charging for what it can no longer do. Holds ITIsaiah Taylor
• Similar wording Nuclear plants should be financed with venture equity rather than project finance, because what is left is technology-execution risk and American venture capital is the best in the world at underwriting that. Holds ITIsaiah Taylor
• Similar wording The cheapest energy will come from a simple mass-produced reactor rather than the best design -- nuclear's problem is the Toyota Camry problem. Holds ITIsaiah Taylor
• Similar wording China will have a working EUV machine long before it can build them in quantity, because production hell takes years after the lab result. Holds DPDylan Patel
• Similar wording Most nuclear companies will not have this solved by 2031, and many still will not by 2035, because they have the wrong mindset. Holds ITIsaiah Taylor