Center for Strategic and International Study (CSIS) – Scaling Down Reactors: A Different Model for Nuclear Energy

ByRod Adams

Apparently, I was not paying enough attention to the world around me to realize that the Center for Strategic and International Study (CSIS) was hosting a meeting on the topic of scaling down reactors in the same town where I spend nearly every working day. Oh well, at least there is a multimedia record of the event that includes slides and audio.

For those people who participated in the discussion about the economy of scale, you might want to visit the site, listen to the talks and take a look through the presentation slides. Bottom line – I am not the only person that has recognized that there is sometimes a diseconomy of extreme scale.

Hat tip to NEI Nuclear Notes, which mentioned the meeting in its post that called last week in Washington Small Reactor Week.

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Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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