The U.S. is building next-generation nuclear reactors, with test reactors already underway at Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy. The technology is moving from concept to actual construction faster than most people realize.
It's going to take some time, but we are all in to get that ball rolling.
Is this five years, 10 years, 15 years? I mean, when do we think we actually will get some real benefits from what we're doing in nuclear in the United States?
So electrons in the grid is in that five to ten year range? I wish it was one to two year range. I'll tell you, because of President Trump, we will have one of these next generation reactors critical within 12 months. So we're going to have test reactors at our Idaho national lab under DOE authority. Bring your kit, build it. We're going to have safe setting there in regulatory environment. The NRC will be there to see it. All the commercial players are seeing we should have 10 or more in the next 18 to 24 months of these next generation reactors going critical.