The safety, the ease with which that will help support our energy needs is huge. And we need to fix our regulatory processes to allow that to happen. It takes a decade to be able to get the approvals to build a nuclear plant. So we need to do permitting reform, which is something I've been a real champion of, to allow all energy infrastructure, whether it's natural gas or whether it's nuclear to, to be. (06:50–06:56)
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