Scott Nolan
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Yeah, so Utah just put out legislation that
that actually did that.
So previously in Utah, my understanding is you weren't really allowed to do behind the meter generation.
You had to produce and hook into the grid as a way of supporting the grid and helping make sure that Utah's grid was strong.
I think there's enough of this concern over bottleneck that recent legislation and regulation said, if you can't get the power you need from the grid, you can go do a reactor behind the meter.
And that was Utah.
I think many other states allow for this too.
The real thing we're going to have to wait for on that front is seeing some of these smaller reactor formats and reactor designs actually get licensed by the NRC.
And so that'll be a few years.
That'll be them doing some testing initially on DOE land, for example, proving that the reactor works.
If they're small enough, they can do that out at Idaho National Lab.
in a facility that they call the dome.
So it's an old containment dome from a different reactor that they emptied out, the dome is there and they can bring reactors in and test them.
So what we're gonna see probably starting 2026, 2027 is reactors going in there,
putting in small amounts of fuel, proving that things work the way they expected to, using that data in NRC license applications, showing, hey, we ran it at a small scale.
We see that the models actually hold.
We see that the predictions are true.
And here's all the reasons why not only will it work, but it'll be extremely safe.
So then that's a two-year process.
And then we're going to see them building them in parallel with getting