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Doug Houseman
Doug Houseman
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TerraPower, PacifiCorp to evaluate 5 advanced nuclear reactors

Small Nuclear Hope?

Terra Power and Pacificorp are working together to try and install 5 small nuclear reactors that are flexible and can load follow.

With the Department of Energy providing roughly 50% of the cost for the first one, will it be an only or will the BANANAs win and one is never built?

Like it or not, we need something beyond wind and solar to power the world. But there is so much fear of nuclear that for many adults it is the equivalent of the "Monster in the Closet".

Will fear win or is there hope for a low GHG future?