Scott Nolan

So you can't say that it has to be zero risk.

Otherwise, you're going to do other things like driving to somewhere, and that's higher risk.

So same thing on energy.

And so there was NRC, DOD, DOE in the supply chain.

And all four of those executive orders went out a couple of weeks ago.

And they all just get back to the core themes of let's get more industrial activity, more economic activity in the US.

Let's remove unnecessary regulations that just slow things down.

Two, really let's bring stuff back onshore and have our own capabilities so that worst case, we can produce what we need.

We should still trade, but let's make sure we have a backstop to that.

And then three, if we want to have national security and be able to have influence across the globe, we need to be leaders in these industries.

And so for nuclear, we need to lead.

And we need to turn around the trend of 87% of reactors that are out there in the world are designs from other countries, not the US.

And so as people deploy those reactors, that comes with fuel contracts and really locks them in to be dependent for a long time on these other countries.

And so the U.S.

should be actually leading there and being able to work with our allies to give them reactors and give them fuel.

I don't think so.

Yeah, this has been a really bipartisan issue.

So even the programs that we're working with the DOE on, those were under the last administration.

And then this administration's doing great things to try and accelerate nuclear too.

And I think last couple of years, you saw this bipartisan support emerge where