Scott Nolan

foreign adversaries.

And so we don't produce that fuel in the US.

So the last administration did realize that and said, we need to create programs to encourage US companies to actually make this fuel.

That was something that happened in 2024 that we are now a part of that program, but it's getting even more support under current administration.

There's been recent executive orders a couple of weeks ago that dealt with nuclear by this administration.

That's going to further accelerate things.

It's become totally bipartisan the last couple of years.

I think there's two things.

There's the fear of weapons.

There's also the fear of accidents.

But if you look at the most famous US accident, Three Mile Island, no one actually died from Three Mile Island, from radiation exposure, from anything else.

What happened there?

So good question.

So Three Mile Island was a famous meltdown that happened in the US, in Pennsylvania.

And so there were two reactors on Three Mile Island, an island of land in a river, and a series of operator mistakes caused one of them to have a meltdown.

And what that means is the fuel overheated, there was

you know some issues caused by that and then potentially some the fear of a meltdown is that you get some radiation leakage but you have containment vessels that contain all these things and that's where a lot of the cost from nuclear comes from is making sure that in no circumstance can any radioactive material ever release from the facility and so three mile island one of the reactors shut shut down melted partial meltdown due to human error series of human error that

due to process controls would not occur today.

But even so, this thing that people view as this crazy disaster, and I think it happened right after a movie came out called The China Syndrome, which was about a nuclear meltdown.

So this movie came out and right after this accident happened and just drove the US into a state of fear about nuclear that lasted decades.