Scott Nolan

based on its isotope, which is how many neutrons it has.

So it's really a refining separation process.

So a lot of people hear enrichment and they think, okay, this sounds dangerous or sounds like there's going to be a lot of radiation or there's going to be some sort of dangerous chemical reactions.

It's actually just separation.

So we don't even have any, you know, in an enrichment plant, there's no nuclear reactions happening.

You're not making anything go critical, is what they call it when there's a chain reaction.

and there's no chemical reactions.

You are doing phase change.

You're taking some material from a solid to a gas, but you're just separating it.

So that's the middle step that the U.S.

doesn't currently do.

We'll talk more about that.

And then you bring it back down into a solid, which is called deconversion.

And then you form it into a pellet or a particle, a pebble, whatever form the reactor needs.

That's called fuel fabrication.

So these five steps, the US has mining.

We have mining in Texas, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado.

So there's mining.

Canada has mining, a lot of mining for uranium, and Australia has great deposits as well.

So US and its allies have plenty of uranium.