Scott Nolan
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are Texas, Wyoming, Utah, Washington.
And so we have some, you know, there's frontrunners there.
There's ones we're really excited about.
We're excited about all of them.
But over the next couple of months, we're going to be making some decisions about which one is really the first one we go to.
How big will these facilities be?
The way to think about it is it's, you know, people think about nuclear and they think of
You know, either the classic cooling towers with steam coming out.
Ours is going to look very much like a Amazon warehouse or a data center or like a pharmaceutical plant that's just a rectangular building.
And the size of these buildings depends on how much capacity you want, but we're talking a few hundred thousand square feet.
So think, hey, it looks like a big Amazon warehouse and there's a lot of equipment inside, but it's a self-contained thing.
Yeah, the traditional reactors operate off of these small fuel pellets that are the inch high ones.
And then they assemble those into fuel rods that then get bunched together and then go into the reactor.
Okay.
So classically, the biggest you would have would be those one-inch little cylinders.
Some new reactor concepts are using the poppy seeds, but they form them into larger spheres.
So for that, you've got something that's roughly the size of a golf ball.
Okay.
And those will be sitting at the bottom of the reactor generating heat as gas flows over them to cool them off and to harvest the heat.
So these little tiny poppy seeds get, you know, basically formed together into that golf ball size.