Isaiah Taylor

So, yeah, I mean, I think like the nuclear waste concern has been highly overplayed.

People have played it up to a degree that's just not commensurate with the facts because it's kind of the easiest target for nuclear, right?

It sounds scary, like, oh, there's nuclear waste and people don't know what that means.

But the fact is nuclear waste is the safest form of waste of any power generation.

It's the safest.

So if you look at...

I always hesitate to compare nuclear to oil and gas because I have a great deal of affection for oil and gas.

I think that oil and gas has powered the modern world.

We would not be anywhere close to where we are as a civilization without oil and gas.

But it has downsides, right?

We may be farther if we had gone with nuclear earlier.

Absolutely.

Absolutely, we'd be farther if we had gone with nuclear earlier.

But still, I have an enormous amount of gratitude for the oil and gas industry for powering humanity to this point.

But we did that with trade-offs and those trade-offs are known, right?

You are at a much, much higher risk of cancer living near a coal plant than living near a nuclear plant.

That's just fact.

That's just scientific empirical fact.

The reason for that is that coal ash and the types of stuff that you're digging up from underground when you burn it gets into the surrounding environment and can cause cancer, right?

And as a civilization, we have to make these trade-offs.