Kevin O'Leary
speaker
128 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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Yeah, that's right.
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And more are expected to come online soon, in part because of everybody's favorite topic, artificial intelligence.
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It's thanks to a program that President Trump launched a little over a year ago.
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But the speed at which these new reactors are getting built has some people really worried.
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What are the risks?
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What could be the benefits?
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And is it actually going to lead to a new nuclear age?
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You know, it comes back to what we talk about a lot these days, which is artificial intelligence.
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Because of AI, US energy demand is going to skyrocket by about 130% between now and 2030, which is just four years.
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I mean, not very long.
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And, you know, the big tech firms, they have these climate commitments.
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And so they need more juice, but they don't want to be burning oil or gas.
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And so there's all sorts of talk around nuclear, restarting old nuclear plants and building new nuclear plants.
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And that's where this whole nuclear race comes in.
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So what's happening this time around is people are thinking smaller, interestingly enough.
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They're thinking of building these small experimental nuclear reactors, many designs that are either completely new or haven't been tried in decades.
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And these are reactors that can be built with venture capital.
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They have some technical advantages that we haven't seen before.
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They can operate at higher temperatures, less likely to melt down.
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That's a big one.
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