Scott Nolan
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And so fast forward to today,
One of those reactors is still out of commission, but the other one Microsoft is planning to turn back on to power AI.
So they renamed Three Mile Island to Crane Energy Center, I believe.
And so one of those reactors is going to come back.
So this thing that people really worry about, they cite Three Mile Island, they cite accidents.
Hey, nuclear can't be safe.
Nuclear is extremely safe.
It's the safest form of base load.
And even the worst accident in the US history, which was caused by human error that would not occur today and can't occur with the more advanced reactors, even that one results in zero deaths.
And so by not building nuclear,
We instead did lots of other stuff.
We did coal, natural gas, wind, solar, all those things we need, but none of them are as safe as nuclear.
I don't blame them.
I think the fossil fuels industry, oil and gas, have been doing what they've... They're on their mission.
Let's have U.S.
energy independence.
Let's...
pull from the natural gas reserves we have, natural gas being half the carbon output of other types of fossil fuels.
And so that's been a big part of how the US actually reduced its carbon emissions the last few years was natural gas.
So I think those companies are just laser focused on what they're trying to do.