Kevin O'Leary
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128 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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Yeah, that's big in the nuclear industry.
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And so the sort of flow of this VC money combined with the new tech is getting everyone very excited.
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And of course, the goal is to maybe build lots of these little reactors at data centers so you don't need to take power off the grid.
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But I should say this technology is still largely unproven.
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I think that there really haven't been reactors of this type before.
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It happened in May of last year.
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President Trump held an Oval Office event with some top nuclear executives.
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He signed a series of orders that were designed to sort of help the nuclear industry in various ways, including one about reactor testing at the Department of Energy.
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It called for the creation of a pilot program that would approve at least three new reactor designs.
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And I'm going to read from the executive order here, quote, with the goal of achieving criticality in each of the three reactors by July 4th of 2026.
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Right, right.
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So in the nuclear world, going critical roughly means just turning your reactor on.
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Working.
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Yes.
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It means not only just working, but you're producing enough nuclear fissions within your fuel, you're splitting enough atoms, that the fuel kind of gets this self-sustaining –
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chain reaction going that if you wanted to, you could turn up the power and generate, you know, electricity.
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But you're just sort of getting that that past that critical point where a nuclear burn begins.
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Right.
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Right.
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And remember, Trump said this like a little over a year ago.
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