Isaiah Taylor
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Perfect.
Any anything else with policy shift that you want to chat about?
Yeah, it's really interesting if you think about where nuclear policy was in the United States from its inception
Nuclear policy started as essentially what I would call protectionism, right?
We wanted to protect what we had.
And what we had was essentially a total monopoly on nuclear energy and nuclear technology.
We're the only ones who knew how to do it.
Germany was trying to figure it out.
Britain caught up pretty fast.
The USSR caught up pretty fast.
But in the very earliest days, this was a total American monopoly.
And our first policies around nuclear were built to protect that monopoly and to keep this as sort of like a closely guarded government secret that doesn't get anywhere else in the world.
But as things happen in technology, other people did figure it out, right?
USSR figured it out.
They became very good at building reactors.
China figured it out.
They're now getting very good at building reactors and reactors are getting built all over the world.
So the new directive from the Trump administration is about dominance.
And I'd say this is a shift from protectionism to dominance.
The new nuclear policy in the United States is that we need to be the best in the world.