Scott Nolan

And the administration a couple of weeks ago said,

we are going to quadruple our nuclear energy by 2050.

So now we went from producing a third of what we need, less than a third, to less than a twelfth.

And so we need to create a massive amount of new nuclear reactor builds.

We have 94 now.

We've got to quadruple that.

And the fuel production we need to increase much more than that.

So a pellet roughly an inch tall of conventional enriched uranium, that one pellet, which roughly like Coke can dimensions just shrunk down to one inch tall would contain as much energy as

a ton of coal or 100 barrels of oil.

That's also if that pellet is conventional nuclear fuel, which is about 5% enriched.

When you run that through, most of the energy is still in there.

The way that nuclear reactors work is you have uranium inside.

The fissile material is uranium-235.

You get uranium-235 in proximity to itself and it starts releasing neutrons which create heat and it forms a chain reaction.

These chain reactions are controlled in reactors through the control rods that they have through water in the vessel.

And so it's basically a heat generator.

And you take the heat.

Traditionally, you boil water.

You either do that directly.

All the rods are sitting in water, and so they're making heat.