HOW TO BUILD LOW-COST NUCLEAR - Lessons from the world - Aidan Morrison

be a very strong case for the government With the sole exception of the United being heavily involved in leading the States, every country in the world establishment of the nuclear industry. [...] ENEC, the United Arab reactors, to take a significant stake in Emirates state-owned nuclear energy the nuclear entity that would operate company, decided that any less than 4 the station, the UAE were able to align reactors in the initial site would render the interests of the entity designing the supporting industry and supply and constructing the plants with that of chains ‘anaemic’.13 operating. [...] Lesson 4: Accept government involvement In the Appendix, we make a broad by the state, while in China one of the assessment of the degree of government key generation enterprises is 81% owned involvement in the nuclear industry in each by the state, with the other 100% owned of the countries surveyed. [...] This A better approach to this problem is to is partly because the license for the full have a number of companies form a large operating life is not granted at the time consortium, whereby the risks of the of the investment, and hence cannot be very large venture are spread amongst counted on, which might be appropriate the combined balance sheets of multiple given the importance of conducting ch. [...] “Global Diver This can be thought of as the ‘core’ and - most important part of the nuclear reactor, gence in Nuclear Power Plant Construction: The Role of Political Decentralization.” Nu which the rest of the reactor is designed - around.