Nuclear power plant

However, they are Generation is, I would say, neglectable in the current circumstances.

Then the outside ring would be the substations that exactly source the power from the NPPs outside of Kyiv, of course.

That's nuclear power plants that Ukraine has.

Nuclear power plants from outside Kyiv and the other generation units.

was the initial build thing? Build a high road idea?

We didn't have to do any snow plowing.

Yes, Cus' idea to not plow these highways was make them all heated by building nuclear power plants every few kilometers.

Very small ones.

Mini ones every few kilometers so

You could

build exits up now, couldn't you? I guess.

So the other question, the over-under, Gary, I don't know if you saw the text or not, for CUSP mini nuclear power plants that he's thinking about building, how much do you think that each one of these mini nuclear power plants cost?

Anyway, so I happen to be talking to a friend, a good friend who is an engineer, and one of his best friends has been in the nuclear power world as an engineer.

And he has spent his life working on a project where... where Nuclear Power Plant 1 uses the fuel, it's depleted or whatever the terminology is, but that fuel is still useful for a different technology and they're working on a design of step-by-step use of fuels in multiple sorts of nuclear reactors that'll be incredibly efficient.

And not too many years ago, this guy was telling my friend, I'm never going to live to see this.

And now he's saying, we're full speed ahead.

In the end, however, it's West German businesses who sign the deal with Iran

Iran natürlich waren wir stolz, dass wir den Auftrag bekamen, das erste Atomkraftwerk im Iran zu bauen, also Siemens KWU.

Auf der anderen Seite habe ich mich natürlich gefragt, warum baut ein Land, das unendlich viele Energiereserven, Öl und Gas hat, warum bauen die überhaupt ein teures Atomkraftwerk? Einmal spielte natürlich für die deutsche Wirtschaft auch der Opportunismus eine Rolle.

Wir waren interessiert zu liefern oder zu investieren.

The motivation came from the necessity of his time.

Conventional power plants have emergency planning zones of about ten miles.

So if you put a nuclear power plant at the edge of New York City, you know, say JFK Airport, most of Brooklyn and Queens, maybe even some parts of Manhattan Island will be well within the exclusion zone.

So that was, and still is, not quite possible for a country like Singapore.

So it's being explored now.

In all countries, nuclear plants go through a very rigorous licensing regime, and the regulator will not just take the salesman word for it.

And it is precisely these regulators that we need actually to have a, a technical sharing to see how they go about evaluating these safety claims and to see whether or not we have got what it takes to be able to even make sense, you know, of the ten thousand page document that eventually is being submitted to us.

A fourth area is that Singapore is not likely to be able to take cookie-cutter approach when deploying nuclear power plants.

We are not likely to just say, "Hey, I mean, I like your plant.

But Hovig, why don't you take us into our topics?

I guess the most interesting issue to me is Armenia's apparent about-face on this nuclear power plant.

So after months touting the Western SMRs, or specifically the US SMRs, as a foundational technology for Armenia's next power plant, he literally said, up until a few weeks ago was Pashinyan was saying that, you know, this is going to be, you know, our next nuclear power plant is going to be a US-based SMR, or some kind of an SMR.

He didn't say US-based, but we all know what that meant.

Armenia essentially appears to be signaling a major pivot, citing surging energy needs from the new AI data center.

By itself, of course, it goes without saying that Armenia, that nuclear energy is one of the primary ways now, given that the de facto leadership of Armenia has given up Artsakh, has given up all our military sort of strategic depth.

This is the only way that Armenia can have a shred of strategic sovereignty, especially energy sovereignty in the region.

And I frequently talk that Armenia needs multiple nuclear power plants, large nuclear power plants, not just one.

Right.

Isn't that wild? Of all the

nuclear power plants in the whole country, because he doesn't work for the same company as me.

They're just like, you're going here.

So, yeah.

So, hey, enlighten us, because to me, I'm thinking like, well, he's got a chance of what, like six? Like, how many nuclear power plants do we have here?

Like 50? Shut up.

Yeah, something like that.