They won't be selling electricity into the grid, but all the nuclear systems will be running and generating the heat that would be used to produce electricity by July 4th of this year. That's exciting to me. We're reforming permitting for nuclear as well as major efforts in domestic uranium enrichment, fuel fabrication, reprocessing and yes, permanent waste disposal sites via a competitive state level opt in process. Instead of telling people it will be here and getting that natural reaction, we're asking states to compete. Who wants to host nuclear innovation campuses? The interest has been tremendous. (11:44–12:02)
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