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Private Capital Needed For Deployment Of New Nuclear, Oppenheimer Tells Conference

By David Dalton
17 April 2026

Grandson of Manhattan Project physicist says it’s ‘not viable’ to just have government-mandated projects

Private Capital Needed For Deployment Of New Nuclear, Oppenheimer Tells Conference
Charles Oppenheimer (left) took part in a panel discussion with Najat Mokhtar of the IAEA and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, global energy and climate innovation editor, The Economist. Copyright NucNet.
Governments have a huge role in the development and deployment of new nuclear plants, but ultimately a “collective funding mechanism” is needed to pull together capital and make it profitable for private investors to support first-time projects, a nuclear conference in London heard.

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