Reactors by the Bargeful by Jake Jurewicz (Blue Energy)

About this episode

This episode features a conversation with Jake Jurewicz about the innovative approach to siting and shipping small modular reactors by barge.

This episode is dedicated to all of the light water reactor fans out there. Especially if you like your LWRs in water. Listen to this conversation with the co-founder and CEO of Blue Energy, Jake Jurewicz, and you'll understand what I mean. Jake is a utility industry veteran with a lifetime of experience on construction sites, so our discussion about how his new company is going to site SMRs on waterways and ship them by barge gets into all kinds of nitty gritty: management, permitting, financing, you name it.

People in this episode

Host: Emmet Penney

Guest: Jake Jurewicz

Topics covered

• light water reactors
• small modular reactors
• utility industry
• waterways
• construction
• management
• financing

Keywords

• light water reactors
• SMRs
• Blue Energy
• utility industry
• construction
• permitting
• financing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blue Energy

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