David Kirtley

And so we have to shield these fusion systems during their operation.

And so this is very similar.

In fact, this is a lot of the work we did with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the last number of years, that there was a landmark agreement that happened for the NRC that then was codified into law last year called the Advance Act,

which is really powerful because it says for the very first time how the U.S.

government leading the way on this, which I'm really proud of, will regulate fusion.

And this gets into a little bit of the details.

But the way the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates nuclear things in the United States is in these different sets of statutes.

And nuclear reactors are regulated under something what's called Part 50.

And there's a lot of variety of the regulatory language around that.

But most of it is to handle special nuclear materials, uranium and plutonium.

But fusion is not.

Fusion is regulated under something called Part 30.

And Part 30 is how hospitals are regulated, particle accelerators, other types of irradiators, where as they're operating...

You have very high energy particles ionizing radiation and you have to protect operators from it and you have to shield them.

And so we build concrete shields.

And if you came and visited Helion, you would see plastic, borated polyethylene and concrete shielding to protect operators and equipment from the fusion reactions while they're happening.

But again, you turn them off and those fusion reactions stop.

And that's really the key.

There's a funny story related to that.

We've been building fusion systems that do fusion a long time.