John Collison

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Cheeky Pint · Julia DeWahl of Antares on building nuclear reactors for the US military · 25 Nov 2025 podcast

And I guess the US military is a large buyer in this case.

How soon afterwards will you go to like I I presume you want to do um civilian premium power use cases like uh like you're saying an oil rig seems like the obvious one, uh that um

Uh ironically that, you know, it would be hard to get gas.

But it can be hard to get refined, you know, uh uh diesel or gasoline to a to an oil rig.

Does that come right afterwards or is that such a different bottle wax from a regulatory point of view that maybe it's like ten years later?

Yes.

There's this movement towards re onshoring

uh manufacturing in the US and various blockers people talk about to that between uh supply chain is difficult and you you've talked about in the fuel context, but also supply chain for manufacturing, talent and the roles that people uh go into and finding talent in specific areas.

I'm just curious, what has your experience been of building a hard tech company in the US?

Yes.

It's the shackleton pitch, you know, of uh uh high risk of failure and uh and that's the pitch that you're making.

Yeah.

Um I like that.

What trends in nuclear should we be excited about right now?

Yeah.

I mean it's so striking the big trend in the US right now being this

uh grid demand was flat for the longest time.

Like we were completely not adding power generation nor adding power transmission.

And now because of data centers essentially we have this enormous boom that is

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