Isaiah Taylor
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And they basically gave the mandate to the Department of Energy that we need to turn on nuclear reactors immediately.
And in fact, they set a date.
So by July 4th, 2026, the president has ordered that the DOE allow three advanced reactors to turn on on American soil outside the national lab system.
So this is unbelievably exciting.
It's what the nuclear industry has been waiting for for decades.
This is what we need.
This is that test framework that we have to have in order to beat China.
Again, the reason this is happening is that the administration recognizes that we must beat China on AI, on manufacturing.
We have to reshore the ability to build things in the real world.
I would say everybody in the administration is absolutely focused and dialed on how do we allow American entrepreneurs to move forward and to do what we do best, which is innovate and build the best technology in the world.
Well, first off, I would just point out that the grid is old.
I think fundamentally the grid, it's an old piece of infrastructure.
It's part of this whole decay problem that we've had in the United States where we've stopped building physical world technology.
We've also stopped building physical world technology that has anything to do with civil infrastructure.
And part of this is a legal problem.
It's because our environmental laws became extremely overbearing and made it hard to do anything.
And it's also because we stopped manufacturing here, right?
So we should make transformers in the United States.
We should make a lot of transformers here.
There are a few companies working on this, right?