Rachel Slaybaugh

Diesel generators are not great.

As EVs expand and we need EV charging stations kind of in the middle of nowhere, you can imagine applications like, oh, it's probably easier to build a microreactor than transmission.

I think probably not.

I think by then it might be you're going on a camping trip and you have like your EV power station and maybe you plug it into a nuclear charging station somewhere or maybe you have solar panels with you.

Yeah.

How do they feel about waste of other energy technologies and how responsible those other energy technologies need to be for their waste?

We're okay with carbon emissions.

We're okay with fly ash ponds.

Not to hate on wind and solar, but there are toxic materials in wind and solar panels that are pretty large in volume.

Nuclear isn't the only technology that produces waste.

And the reason nuclear is so interesting is the energy density is so high.

An amount of nuclear fuel the size of a gummy bear is the same as three barrels of oil or one ton of coal.

One gummy bear, same amount of electricity as one ton of coal.

So it is a real issue that we do need to be responsible for.

But we're starting with, it's just not that much waste.

And the waste isn't like off in the air somewhere where it's hard to capture, like we know where it is.

It's controlled.

We're taking care of it today and there are a lot of technical solutions.

It is mostly a political problem and I do not want to minimize how difficult political problems are to solve.

But the waste can be disposed of or the waste can be recycled.