Isaiah Taylor

They figured out how to essentially shut down nuclear by suing over safety regulations and environmental policy to prevent nuclear projects from happening.

And obviously, mass sort of social advocacy against nuclear.

And I believe that they had significant foreign funding to push those narratives.

Yeah, so this is an interesting one, right?

Let's talk about why regulations exist and what the good case for regulation is, right?

So nuclear has the potential to cause harm to humans in the environment if it's done wrong.

And we need to do a lot of it, right?

So the natural conclusion to that is you need a regulator.

A regulator is going to protect the public and protect the environment from things going wrong in nuclear energy.

This is the same for any mass industry.

If you have a chemical plant, you have regulators which make sure that those chemicals aren't going to leak into the river.

If you have even a coal station or a natural gas station, you're going to have regulators which make sure that it doesn't blow up and it doesn't kill people.

So this is a good thing that we have as part of society.

Now, one thing I think people miss about regulations is that regulators in particular really only know how to regulate things that exist.

They don't know how to regulate things that don't exist yet.

And what that means is that you have to always have an open space for innovation.

We're an innovative country.

We're a country that sources a lot of our power, power in the political sense, from technology.

We are a technological society that wields power throughout the world through our technological supremacy.

And if you want that to stay true,