Kevin O'Leary

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128 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Jul

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Short Wave · Are Trump and AI driving a nuclear power boom? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

So, you know, we're talking about taking at least again, at least three nuclear reactors from paper to matched

To actual nuclear fuel in reactors burning within roughly 12 months. matched

And I'm not sure the U.S. matched

has ever been able to do this before. matched

They did it. matched

Wow. matched

In fact, four reactors came online. matched

What? matched

Wow. matched

Yes. matched

They beat it by one. matched

One of them went online at like 1230 in the morning on July 4th, just squeaked in under the deadline. matched

You know, Department of Energy officials, they compared this to like a Manhattan Project type event, you know. matched

But I got to say that kind of hints at some of the other sides of this that people are really worried about. matched

Because if you know about the Manhattan Project, well, or even if you don't, turns out they did a lot of environmental damage when they started making nuclear weapons back in the day very, very quickly without a lot of oversight. matched

Right. matched

And so there are people who are worried about the possibility that this new program is setting the nuclear industry up to be less safe in the future. matched

So first, these are really small test reactors. matched

They're not, you know, the giant ones that you see, you know, in The Simpsons. matched

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