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THE US NUCLEAR INDUSTRY IS STUCK. CAN THIS STARTUP GET IT ROLLING AGAIN?

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The Nuclear Company came out of stealth last week by announcing its aim to deploy a 6-gigawatt nuclear fission reactor fleet by the mid-2030s. 6 gigawatts is more nuclear-generating capacity than the US has deployed in the last decade. The company plans to use proven licensed technology to construct a series of reactors across the US. Its founders believe that the slow deployment of nuclear power in the US is partly due to the industry's own making as it focuses too much on first-of-a-kind constructions rather than on a repeatable, fleet-scale approach.