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And then they do conversion to the gas as well.
Canada runs on a different reactor type that doesn't actually require enrichment of uranium.
They just use plain uranium and use heavy water to actually make the reaction happen.
Those are called CANDU reactors.
And so they classically haven't had an enrichment technology because they've chosen to do this other reactor type.
So Canada is pretty active in nuclear and in uranium mining.
Luckily, the water, yeah, good question.
Same question applies to data centers.
So historically, a lot of data centers used evaporative cooling.
And so you ran through a lot of water.
the newer data centers are doing closed loop cooling.
So no water evaporation.
You do have big heat exchangers sitting outside, but you're not evaporating water to cool.
And some of the very similar to data centers, some of the modern nuclear reactors
what people call these generation four reactors, just the latest in technology, in safety, in cost.
They also use closed loop cooling.
So one of the ones we talked about, the shipping container size reactor, no water use.
The fluids flowing around are other fluids like helium and CO2.
And so to cool off, you just run it through a big fan and heat exchange your system, just like a radiator on a car.
And so you don't need any water for cooling, so no water consumption.