Jigar Shah
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 29 Apr
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Odd Lots · Jigar Shah on the Three Big Things Driving the Nuclear Energy Revival · 30 Sep 2024
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You get faster.
I mean, you see that when you go into like a new home construction place.
The first home takes, it seems, a lot longer, and then suddenly like the homes start popping up every week, right?
This is the same with nuclear power.
We trained 13,000 people to build a Vogel nuclear plant in Georgia, right?
And then
We were done.
And where did all those workers go?
To other jobs.
So now if we wanted to build units five and six, we wanted to rebuild, you know, VC Summer in South Carolina, which is like 100 miles away, right?
We'd have to go out and find another 13,000 workers, right?
And so one of the things that we have to figure out how to do is to figure out how to build 10, right?
And have those same workers that we trained, all those same EPC contractors.
All of those same suppliers, not have to start stop and start, but we, you know, continue to like to do these one-off things.
Yeah, I mean it's a juicy tail.
Right.
I mean, when you think about the nuclear energy industry.
There aren't really any entrepreneurs, right?
Constellation is a company that bought up a lot of other people's nuclear plants.
They are the best operator of nuclear plants in the world, right?
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