Isaiah Taylor
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Helium is inert, so we don't have a lot of chemical reactions and corrosions in the core, that sort of thing.
So I think they'll last a long time, but we plan around 20 years.
Are you working with Scott Nolan at all?
So Scott's working on uranium enrichment, which is extremely important.
We need to be able to enrich more uranium.
We've built our reactors around low enriched uranium.
So he's working on solving the HALU problem.
So HALU is high SA, low enriched uranium.
It's essentially uranium enriched from uranium
5% to 20%, anywhere in that range, we use below 5%.
The reason we do that is it exists today.
Scott's solving a problem of we just don't have Halo.
Russia makes it, we're not buying it from Russia.
We have some stockpiles which we're trying to figure out how to make available for test quantities.
But if you need these sort of like advanced types of reactors, you need HALU.
We kept it simple, right?
We just said, let's use what's off the shelf.
Off the shelf is low-energy uranium.
It currently powers 20% of the American energy grid, and there's lots of it.
So we start there.