Doug Bernauer
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And so we're not doing anything like that.
So that's about 1,000 times larger also, right?
A reactor that size is power for a million homes.
All right.
Yeah, and at grid scale, your challenge is to compete with the lowest cost electricity, with solar, with natural gas, with all these other power sources going onto the grid.
And what we're doing is making this reactor you can make in a factory, which means you can move it somewhere.
And so our customers are those who want to operate it at the hospital or a military base or a data center somewhere, and the grid isn't there yet or is not reliable enough.
What do you have to show me?
There's a whole bunch of stuff.
I think... How about this thing that says, please do not touch?
Yeah, so this is actually nuclear-grade graphite.
We have the upper dome of the pressure vessel here.
I mean, you think about that, you must.
Certainly.
I mean, we...
We care what the weather is.
We don't have control over it.
For some of our customers, just the volatility of those things is a selling point, right?
The fact that oil can suddenly spike.