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Energy Switch
Barriers to Nuclear
Season 9
Episode 4
Many now embrace nuclear energy as a low-carbon, always-on domestic energy source. For the U.S. to build more, it must overcome budget and schedule overruns, complicated permitting, a stagnated industry and broken supply chain. Dr. Sama Bilbao y León, Director of the World Nuclear Association, and Dr. Adam Stein, Director of Nuclear Energy Innovation at the Breakthrough Institute, offer solutions.
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