Kai Risdahl

I don't know.

Bonds up, yield on the 10-year T-note down 4.28%.

You're listening to Marketplace.

This is Marketplace.

I'm Kai Risdahl.

We've been talking about energy prices a lot of late, the world of oil specifically, as the day-to-day volatility thereof is front and center.

But if we pull back a bit to well before this war and its energy shock, a completely different slice of our energy economy has been enjoying something of a comeback.

That's why earlier this week, I found myself at a low-rise warehouse-style office building in El Segundo, California, right near LAX.

Hello.

Took for an hour.

Hey, Doug, Kai, Rizdal, nice to see you.

How are you?

Hi, nice to see you.

Nuclear energy is the topic du jour.

Billions of dollars in investment are going into companies in this industry that are developing new nuclear technology that's in super high demand, in no small part because of AI and data centers and the ever-increasing amount of power this economy is going to need.

Tell us who you are and where we are.

Most nuclear reactors aren't made this way, nor is our economy using enough of them for them to be built and sold at scale.

Yet.

The 150-ish people who work here at Radiant, engineers of all kinds for the most part, are trying to change that.

Describe for me the thing you are trying to, but you are going to build, not trying, sorry.