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Scott Nolan

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

are Texas, Wyoming, Utah, Washington.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

And so we have some, you know, there's frontrunners there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

There's ones we're really excited about.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

We're excited about all of them.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

How big will these facilities be?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

The way to think about it is it's, you know, people think about nuclear and they think of

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

You know, either the classic cooling towers with steam coming out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

And the size of these buildings depends on how much capacity you want, but we're talking a few hundred thousand square feet.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

Yeah, the traditional reactors operate off of these small fuel pellets that are the inch high ones.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

And then they assemble those into fuel rods that then get bunched together and then go into the reactor.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

Okay.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

So classically, the biggest you would have would be those one-inch little cylinders.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

Some new reactor concepts are using the poppy seeds, but they form them into larger spheres.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

So for that, you've got something that's roughly the size of a golf ball.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

Okay.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#211 Scott Nolan - CEO of General Matter on Uranium Enrichment

So these little tiny poppy seeds get, you know, basically formed together into that golf ball size.