Isaiah Taylor
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So for cars, for example, I don't think so.
I don't think that we'll have nuclear cars.
Or let me say it another way.
I think we will have nuclear cars, but it will be nuclear-generated diesel that then goes into a car.
Or nuclear-generated electricity that powers a car.
Nuclear reactors don't like being small.
There's sort of a minimum size that you want to build a nuclear reactor.
And trying to get it smaller than that is a very, very difficult engineering challenge.
It's a safety challenge.
It's a weight challenge.
It's an exotic materials challenge.
So there's sort of a good form factor for a nuclear reactor.
And then what it does is make really cheap energy and you can transfer that energy to other forms.
You can turn it into electrons, power a battery.
You can turn it into jet fuel, power a jet.
But hydrocarbon is such a beautiful thing.
It's a liquid, right?
I think we take hydrocarbons for granted.
The fact that hydrocarbons are a liquid