Elad Gil
speaker
6,339 appearances
58 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 10 Sep
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Do you think it will credibly take off?
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Because you know, I looked into the cost structure for nuclear before and there were two or three drivers.
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Uh, one is honestly just environmental delays and the cost of debt as you get delayed.
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And so you have these big project financing things that you raise money for.
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And then if you're delayed a couple of years, the costs go up so dramatically that it makes it an uneconomical project.
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And because people are so used to these delays, they always build giant projects.
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Cause we're like, if we're gonna take the hit, we may as well take the
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People are now moving towards these smaller, more modular reactor systems.
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Do you think that will actually credibly take off?
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Because solar was never an issue of safety.
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I mean, excuse me, nuclear was never an issue of safety.
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It was never an issue of some aspects of cost.
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I mean, again, it was it was almost like these imposed delays through environmental lobby or NIMBYism or other things that often seem manufactured.
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But do you think it's kind of dead in the water going forward?
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I don't think it's in the water.
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I don't think it's in the water.
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is storage really the core component of it?
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transmit like long distances on the grid, right?
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And so I think Well you can, but
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