John Arnold

I talked to a lot of federal politicians on both sides of the aisle.

One of the things I hear from almost all of them is this need to figure out how to permit and build faster and more efficiently in the United States.

So there is very broad agreement at the top level, but you can get disagreements about the details about how to go about that.

I remain reasonably optimistic that we can get federal permitting reform done.

This year, it'll be the only bipartisan legislation that happens besides maybe a budget.

But there is this will that I sense that is unlike any other issue in D.C.

right now, is that there is this realization that this can set the country back.

And people would look at it for different reasons.

Again, people have prioritized those goals in different ways.

So how can you do a bill that helps all of those goals?

Promising, but very, very difficult.

The innovation hasn't been proven.

We can build the AP1000.

The AP1000 is the latest of the traditional nuclear power plant.

We know it's a very, very costly electron.

It was the last nuclear plant to be built in the United States, finished, I think, in 2024.

Vogel Units 3 and 4 are AP-1000s and have a very advanced safety design for a nuclear power plant.

The Vogel plants were...

enormously expensive.

And if anything, they've gotten harder to build since then because they require a very significant amount of labor in generally rural parts of this country.