nuclear power

“I would say that what I think of as probably infeasible right now is like nuclear power plant, right? Like energy and transportation, like aviation, like at the level, like a Boeing or something like that. Very large physical businesses are still not, I think,…”

“I'm hopeful it's a bit of a generational issue where the anti-nuclear people Are these boomers, these baby boomers who came of age in the seventies and once they lose grip on power in the next decade or so we may be able to have a nuclear renaissance in this c…”

“Had we deployed it, we would have sidestepped the whole climate change issue that we're in currently.”

“Natural gas, which I agree with Dr. Huff the low cost of it definitely caused us to adopt that, to fill that need, rather than nuclear, but I think nuclear can leapfrog it.”

“A huge fraction of that gigantic gap must be filled by nuclear power, or else we're never gonna get to net zero.”

“The expense of different kinds of energy technology typically determine what utilities are gonna select. And there was a serious period of time where, for example, natural gas was an extremely cheap option to build quickly with low capital investment, And that…”

“Nuclear power, on the other hand, Even existing conventional plants, they only need to be refueled once every 18 months, maybe two years, right?”

“The precautioner principle applied to nuclear power is increasingly regarded even inside the environmental movement as a catastrophic mistake, because nuclear power is the panacea for, that we have today for unlimited clean energy. And we went down a 60 year, …”

“So if nuclear gets radically cheap relative to anything else we can do, I'd expect there's a lot of political pressure to get the NRC to move quickly on it, and we'll find a way to build it fast. If it's around the same price as other sources, I expect the kin…”

“Nuclear is going to take five or 10 years. It's just not something that we're going to be able to do in the next two or three years”

“I think energy ultimately in the next call it five years will probably be the bottleneck, and that's why we're so excited about nuclear and making investments in that area.”

“I promised him America will get underway in space on nuclear power before the end of his term.”

“And so I looked into solar power on Mars and found that was really challenging, and then I looked into nuclear power on Mars and found that was the only way.”