Is Regulation Strangling Nuclear Energy?

Is overzealous regulation the root cause of the contemporary crisis
in deployment of nuclear reactors in the USA? James Krellenstein
argues that Nuclear Regulatory Commission critics are trapped in
the 1980’s and that the spectre haunting today’s deployments are
not primarily regulatory. Due to simplified systems and lower
material costs modern NRC approved passive reactors should be
cheaper than complex Gen 2 reactors. In addition there are 17GWe
worth of combined construction and operating licenses in the USA
ready to go. All that and more on this week’s episode.