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Lecture 8: What Investors Need to Know About Small-Modular and Microreactors
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MIT 22.04 Social Problems of Nuclear Energy, Fall 2025
Instructor: R. Scott Kemp
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This lecture discusses new ideas in the area of nuclear power and their potential to be viable competitors to wind and solar, the potential for cost reduction by factory fabrication, and proposed electricity markets for microreactors.
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