Isabelle Boemeke

One of the interesting things, and it's something that I've only learned recently, is that the hardest part of converting a coal plant into a nuclear plant is that there would have to be a lot of cleanup because the coal power plant sites are so dirty.

including from radioactive contamination from the coal ash.

Yeah, but all coal plants are also, because they're also thermal plants.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah, so coal and gas plants are very similar in that they heat water to create steam, spin a turbine, blah, blah, blah.

So you also need cooling, constant cooling.

The difference, obviously, is that coal burns coal to do all of that, and nuclear just taps into it.

How interesting.

And here's the thing that's the most exciting, in my opinion, as we go into a world where people will lose their jobs because of AI and we don't know what the numbers are, but you can actually retrain all of the people who used to work at the coal plant to work at the nuclear plant.

And so the boost that that gives to the economy of these towns that in many cases are devastated by this coal plant shutting down, it's quite amazing.

So it's also a creator of jobs and a net contributor to the whole community.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, that was awesome.

Good job.

Thank you so much.