Scott Nolan

and saying, we haven't done anything new with reactors for a long time.

Pretty much any reactor we build is going to be R&D.

And so we should treat it like R&D.

And the Department of Energy has the right to test reactors under R&D.

So we should give them more top cover or ability to go test these reactors on their land.

So this creates an alternative for companies just trying to get started to prove out what they can do.

And now they can do that on DOE land even more than they could before.

So that's one action.

There's another executive order that said the Defense Department should stand up the capability to deploy its own reactors so that they can have energy resilience on their bases.

Another executive order said the NRC should reform.

Historically, it just looked at risk and said, we need to get radiation risk as low as possible, even lower than background levels in some cases.

This policy was known as ALARA, as low as reasonably achievable.

And there's really no floor on that.

So that meant that while the safest nuclear is no nuclear,

And so there's naturally a bias towards really restricting nuclear and just creating an incredibly high safety bar that's higher than any other source of energy.

And so this executive order said, hey, let's take a look at the regulations and let's update them.

Let's not deregulate, let's just re-regulate.

and think about, given modern technology, how should we be thinking about this?

Yes, every energy source has some risks, but nuclear has a lot of benefits, and we should factor those in just like we do for air travel.

There's risk, but there's benefits.