Isaiah Taylor

Now, one very, very counterintuitive fact about nuclear is that nuclear fuel is spread all throughout the earth, right?

There's a couple of caches and deposits of uranium and thorium that are more concentrated, but nuclear in general is just like spread throughout the earth.

So about 10 parts per million of every just rock outside has 10 parts per million is nuclear material.

There's trace nuclear material in basically every rock that you pick up outside.

Here's a crazy fact for you.

So we talked about this chunk of coal that fits in your hand and how much energy it has in it.

If you go outside the studio right now and you find a rock that's the same size and you ask how much energy is in that nuclear energy, the answer is about 100 times more energy than the chunk of coal.

Are you serious?

Every single rock that you pick up outside of the studio is as if you're holding a 100x chunk of coal in terms of energy.

If you take those trace amounts of uranium and thorium and you were to fully fission those in a fast reactor,

you would get a hundred times more energy, which is to take our original example, enough to propel you about 30 kilometers, your body off of the earth.

So about a third of the way to space, every single rock that you find out in the garden on the side of the road.

So nuclear is, it is the future, right?

You can look at that and say, okay, when we discovered nuclear energy, we essentially discovered that the entire planet

is as valuable as a coal mine, which is very valuable and very energetic.

So I think people underestimate radically how much nuclear fuel there is.

It's under our feet at all times.

We could be using it.

We should be using it.

So this is really, really exciting.