Bob Mumgaard
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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They're gonna operate somewhat shakily at first as they learn.
And in the past, the government has been there to help get those plants built.
You know, ARDP is a program in fission that's been successful.
You go all the way back, you see these early deployments where the CapEx heavy piece buying cement, steel, labor, the government helps with that.
While we test out the ideas.
And that this whole package is pretty well scoped out, but it requires you know action by the administration in Congress.
And we're we're optimistic that'll happen, but we're wasting a lot of time because that's already happening in the other countries.
And their packages are significantly more favorable.
You know, they have a different view of public private partnership where the government's taking an active role.
And right now we have a lot of we have talk, we have frameworks, but at the ground, you you you really don't see the impact.
Yeah, one of the crazy things about fusion is that the you know the overall scale of the industry, the impact is very large, but the physical scale is not very big.
Right?
Right.
You're you're building power plants, and yeah, you have to build thousands of power plants.
There are thousands of coal plants, there are thousands of gas plants.
So, like it's that scale.
But the stuff that goes in to the plant is not fuel, it's not stuff that is choked off and the plant.
Can't shut off because they don't get fuel.
That's Hermuz, right?
That's Russian pipelines of gas.
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