Scott Nolan

Founder & CEO, General Matter · 1 appearance on the record.

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After serving as an early engineer at SpaceX developing propulsion systems for Falcon rockets and the Dragon capsule, Scott Nolan spent over a decade as an investing partner at Founders Fund backing hard-technology companies. In 2024, he co-founded and became CEO of General Matter, an American uranium enrichment company focused on rebuilding domestic nuclear fuel production.

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2 predictions · 7 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

US uranium enrichment market share dropped from 86% to under 0.1%

“And so we went from a place of 86% global market share down to less than .1% today by U.S. Companies or U.S. Entities.”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 16:27 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Nolan: Advanced reactors will surprise on deployment speed for AI demand

“We think that they're going to surprise everyone in their deployment speed and scale up, and, you know, just looking at the landscape of energy demand in the U.S. We haven't grown the grid for decades and yet now we have this huge surge of demand for data cent…”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 28:00 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2029

Nolan: General Matter will displace adversarial nuclear imports by 2030

“Building enough capacity there to satisfy HALU through the next decade, and then enough LEU capacity to displace adversarial imports into the US. And so that's the scale of it. That's where we're doing it. Timeline is, you know, Before end of decade.”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 31:41 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Assertion Partly supported

Nolan: US has no commercial-scale domestic enrichers, relies on Europe and Russia

“If you look at enrichment today and what the U.S. Consumes, It's about 75% Europe, European producers and it's about 25% Russia. And so we can talk about the history of how we got here, but there's no commercial at scale U.S. Producer operating anywhere. There…”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 13:04 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Disclosure

Nolan: General Matter's Paducah plant will cover US HALEU demand through 2040

“In, in Paducah, we're producing enough HALU enrichment capacity, we believe, to take us through the middle of the next decade, potentially all the way to twenty-forty to serve U.S. Demand.”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 29:28 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Assertion Supported

US uranium enrichment market share dropped from 86% to under 0.1%

“And so we went from a place of 86% global market share down to less than .1% today by U.S. Companies or U.S. Entities.”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 16:27 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Assertion Supported

Nolan: US waiver process for Russian uranium imports expires January 1, 2028

“Well, in, in twenty-twenty-four, there was a Russian uranium imports ban passed by Congress, and so there's a waiver process that's ongoing right now where the Secretary of Energy can waive the ban. If a utility needs it and there's not another source, which h…”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 14:21 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Assertion Supported

Nolan: Most advanced reactors will use 19.75% enriched HALEU fuel

“Most of the advanced reactors that you hear about are going to be using 19.75 enriched fuel.”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 21:59 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Assertion Partly supported

Paducah was the last site of US commercial-scale uranium enrichment

“Paducah is actually the last place the U.S. Did commercial scale enrichment. It's where we did enrichment that fueled all the U.S. Reactors, and that facility was shut down in 2013”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 30:40 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Assertion Supported

Nolan: U.S.-mined uranium is often shipped abroad for conversion and back

“Today For us product to be mined, you know, it's shipped all the way out of the country to be converted in, in a lot of cases, and then shipped all the way back.”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 36:44 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Assertion Supported

Nolan: US has only one operating uranium conversion plant

“We have one facility doing conversion in the U.S. That's Honeywell sold under Converdine in Southern Illinois. It's actually five miles from where our facility is.”

Scott Nolan Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 4:53 Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Building a domestic nuclear fuel supply chain	Apr 2, 2026	21m

Scott Nolan

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