Gerstner argues US can address nuclear cost problems through regulatory consolidation and clustered reactor construction.
“It seems to me the first two, right, we can tackle, right? You can consolidate the regulatory environment in The United States so that you reduce the time to bring one of these things online and I also think that if you clustered some of these, if we wanted to get back to building more of these reactors”
Gerstner states nuclear reactor costs drop 50% by the fifth plant and 70% by the tenth through scale production.
“if you look at these gen three and gen four reactors coming online, even in The United States, they always cost more in that first plant, but by plant five, it was cut in half, by plant 10 it was cut by 70%, right? So cost comes down as you ramp up scale production.”