Westinghouse to conduct key study for AP1000 in Slovakia
This represents continued global progress in large reactor deployment and cost/build-time learning for the AP1000 design, a reactor class Australia's Coalition has proposed as part of its civil nuclear policy. FEEDER studies and new reactor builds outside Australia contribute empirical data on nuclear capex, construction timelines, and operational lessons that directly inform the economic case for nuclear firming capacity in Australian energy planning.
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Energy security is national security. This connects to the wider case at Unprepared: Australia's dependence on a strategic rival, and how ready it is for the world that is coming.
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