Isabelle Boemeke

So, you know, obviously fire spreads faster and so on.

But, you know, it's interesting because specifically the L.A.

fires, because they're so recent, the ones in Palisades.

It couldn't have been totally avoided, but it definitely could have been made better or less severe with a few practices that, you know, you mentioned, the Getty mentioned.

Why isn't the city of LA preparing to face those fires as well?

Since it seems to happen every single year.

So there are things that can be done like brush management and controlled burns, even things like that that are not at least being implemented.

But, you know, it's a huge tragedy and trying to point fingers is kind of useless.

If it exists, it's very ineffective because I don't personally take money from the nuclear industry, but there are people who are happy to take money from the nuclear industry and they just won't give any away.

So if there is big nuclear or big uranium, I'm not aware of it.

But just to step back, why are people so afraid of nuclear?

And it's interesting you mentioned you didn't really know much about it, but you just had this vibe that it was bad.

Or dangerous.

Yes, exactly.

So I think even your generation, certainly my generation, we don't really know why, but we just have a bad feeling about it.

And if you want to go all the way back to the beginning, you really have to go to whenever nuclear fission was discovered.

And this is when a few scientists in the lab found out that by bombarding uranium with neutrons would create the atoms in the uranium to split.

And that would release energy.

And I'm just really simplifying the history here because it was a lot of people involved and steps and so on.

But, you know, this discovery unfortunately took place in 1938 in Germany.