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Scott Nolan

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

If you want everyone to have a good quality of life, you know, be able to heat and cool their homes, have refrigeration, have all the things we have, it's going to take a lot more energy and there's no way around it.

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

Per capita, no.

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

Let's see.

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

Where's NBN here?

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

Yeah, per capita, no.

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

But overall, yes, India, China, huge, huge production and consumption.

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

In terms of the AI demand, if you just project out AI demand, it's going to be equal to our grid by 2030.

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

It's just this exponential growth curve.

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

And those are always hard to predict, but reasonable predictions say it needs as much as we have on the entire grid by 2030.

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

which means we have to start right now expanding production of reactors of fuel.

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

And so to your question, are they using them yet?

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

No, not yet.

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

There's a lot of companies building, designing and now building and will be testing advanced reactor types.

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

And I expect those to, we should start seeing those plug into the grid in about five years.

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

And so we need to do that now.

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

It's five years out.

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

OK, AI is going to consume equivalent to the US grid today in five years, potentially.

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

That's crazy.

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

We need to go full speed on reactor licensing, construction, deployment.

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

And all those reactors need fuel.