Scott Nolan
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So a bunch of the advanced reactor types are doing that.
But if we zoom out, to really have domestic capability, you need all the steps.
And so the step that's missing right now is enrichment.
And that's why we're working on enrichment.
Why don't we have enrichment right now?
We used to have enrichment.
Global map of enrichment right now, Russia's about half.
Europe's about 40%.
China's roughly 10%, growing really fast.
So the 10% was a couple years ago.
It's north of that now.
And the US, just in terms of how much total enrichment we're doing, it's less than 0.1%.
And so you ask, how did we get here?
These things are usually over-constrained.
There's a bunch of reasons why we got here.
We didn't think we needed it.
We thought, maybe nuclear isn't growing anymore.
It's fine.
We have these reactors.
Up until a couple of years, there wasn't an agreement that we needed more reactors.