Electric Power, Nuclear

November 18, 2025

Nuclear power enjoys growing interest, but can it deliver?

HIGHLIGHTS

Nuclear power gains interest; reactors restart

Existing plants extend lifetimes; new reactor designs emerge

Concerns over on-time, on-budget delivery linger

Nuclear power is back in vogue, with shuttered reactors being restarted, existing plants having their operating lives extended and a growing market of new companies racing to build advanced reactor designs. But questions persist about whether the nuclear industry can execute to deliver these generation projects on schedule and on budget in an era of rapidly rising power demand.

In this episode, Dan Testa discusses these trends with Platts reporter Abbie Bennett and Bill Freebairn, Platts associate director of price reporting for nuclear fuels. Also joining the episode are Adam Stein, a nuclear analyst at the Breakthrough Institute, as well as Drew Marsh, CEO of Entergy Corp. and the new chair of the Nuclear Energy Institute.

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