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Chris Wright: “We should have 10 or more in the next 18 to 24 months of…”

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Bring your kit, build it. We're going to have safe setting there and regulatory environment. The NRC will be there to see it. All the commercial players are seeing We should have 10 or more in the next 18 to 24 months of these next generation reactors going critical. They won't be producing electricity and selling onto the grid yet, but we'll be confirming these designs. We will have shovels in the ground with reactors being built in the next 12 months. (34:19–34:28)

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Asserts that 10 or more next-generation reactors will be operational in 18 to 24 months.

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