Doug Bernauer

If you had bought a reactor, for our system, it lasts about five years.

So you're buying five years of stable, known energy costs.

I mean, possibly.

The thing is that I don't need to sell a huge number of these and make them go everywhere.

It's really for people who need it, who want to have a hospital that when the grid goes out, they don't have a room filled with 12 diesel generators that they're going to just pump a bunch of exhaust fumes out into the environment with.

This is a way to do power.

And, you know, all of the nuclear material, all the uranium, we didn't make it.

It's all here.

It's on Earth.

It's completely natural.

It's under your feet.

If you don't use it, it actually just decays away within the Earth.

When it does that, it produces radon gas that goes into people's basements.

So not using the nuclear fuel that's here is about as foolish as not holding up a solar panel when the sun is shining.

It's free energy.

Right?

Well, I think that there's this association with nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.

Sure.

For a large reactor, typically a utility chooses to build that.

The utility is a public service, right?