David Kirtley

And at some level, they got powerful enough doing enough fusion.

We started building these shields and shielding them like a particle accelerator.

And I went to the regulatory bodies that regulate Part 30.

This is in Washington state.

It's the Department of Health.

And so I went to the Department of Health and said, here's an application for a fusion generator shielding permit as a particle accelerator.

And the very first question I got asked was, great, where do the patients go?

Because the standard form had a patient...

as a hospital, the patient dose for the particle accelerator, and then the shielding.

And we talked all about the shielding and the operators, which is very similar for a Helion system.

And we said, no, no patients at all.

No one's inside this thing.

Our goal is to generate electricity one day.

This was a lot of years ago.

And we were able to go through and work with the state agencies to license

These fusion particle accelerators, we were, as far as we know, the first licensed fusion system ever as a particle accelerator for those first systems.

First license we had was in 2020.

We then have gone on and now licensed several of our fusion systems that we've built that do fusion, both the shielding as well as some of the fuel processes.

So there are a number of ways to do fusion.

And fundamentally, in all fusion approaches, you're trying to do the same fundamental physical process, which is take these lightweight isotopes, heat them up,