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 View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/22-04j-social-problems-of-nuclear-energy-fall-2025/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEd-FHe0va8k 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. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments.

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