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Scott Nolan

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

But the idea of modular there is, hey, we bring in the reactor core.

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

And then separately, we'll bring in maybe the cooling loop.

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

And separately, we'll bring in the turbines.

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

And we'll plug it all together there.

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

But we can keep it pretty simple versus one big integrated thing.

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

So once you go to the traditional style of a gigawatt scale reactor, it's a lot more complicated.

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

You're doing a lot more assembly and construction on site in an integrated way, which is much more complicated.

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

still has merit because the amount of power you're getting out of that is a gigawatt plus.

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

And so the payoff is pretty big.

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

And so if we can get good at those construction projects, that's a viable path too.

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

So people ask me, which one do you think wins?

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

Which reactor wins?

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

I think these are three pretty different segments where the really big reactors, that's straight onto the grid.

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

You're competing at grid scale, grid energy costs.

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

You have to hit really low cost.

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

Middle end of the spectrum,

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

It's about speed and about, yeah, how fast can we build this construction project?

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

This can't be a 10 year project.

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

It has to be a five year project or less.

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

We need energy now and we need it.