MacroVoices #554 Yasir Arafat: Mass Manufacturing Nuclear Power Plants

Aalo Atomics believes factory-built sodium reactors could undercut coal/gas costs within a few years, though fuel supply chains and China's buildout remain key risks.

• Mass-manufacturing thesis: Aalo is scaling from a 40,000 sq ft facility to one million sq ft, targeting 100 reactors/year (1 GWe) built as 20 'pods' of five 25MWe sodium-cooled reactors plus three steam turbines for redundancy.
• Cost trajectory faster than expected: Arafat says first-of-a-kind units land in mid-teens cents/kWh, the 10th reactor could hit under 10 cents/kWh, and ~50 GW/year of capacity could make nuclear cost-competitive with coal and gas within a few years, not decades.

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