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

And then they do conversion to the gas as well.

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

Canada runs on a different reactor type that doesn't actually require enrichment of uranium.

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

They just use plain uranium and use heavy water to actually make the reaction happen.

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

Those are called CANDU reactors.

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

And so they classically haven't had an enrichment technology because they've chosen to do this other reactor type.

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

So Canada is pretty active in nuclear and in uranium mining.

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

Luckily, the water, yeah, good question.

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

Same question applies to data centers.

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

So historically, a lot of data centers used evaporative cooling.

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

And so you ran through a lot of water.

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

the newer data centers are doing closed loop cooling.

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

So no water evaporation.

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

You do have big heat exchangers sitting outside, but you're not evaporating water to cool.

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

And some of the very similar to data centers, some of the modern nuclear reactors

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

what people call these generation four reactors, just the latest in technology, in safety, in cost.

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

They also use closed loop cooling.

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

So one of the ones we talked about, the shipping container size reactor, no water use.

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

The fluids flowing around are other fluids like helium and CO2.

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

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.

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

And so you don't need any water for cooling, so no water consumption.