“We're building a factory right now in Texas to mass-produce 100 nuclear reactors per year on an assembly line”

Macro Voices · MacroVoices #554 Yasir Arafat: Mass Manufacturing Nuclear Power Plants

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building a Texas factory to mass-produce 100 modular nuclear reactors per year on an assembly line

100 reactors/year, 10 MW each → 1 GW annual capacity

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“It includes upgrading 11 nuclear reactors... will add as much power to the grid as building a large new reactor.”
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“He used to write 100,000 lines of code per year, being a very productive engineer and CTO.”
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“Maybe 100,000 lines of code in a year, which is a lot”
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