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Hello and welcome back to the Power Hour, the Heritage Foundation Center for Energy, Climate,

and Environment's podcast. I'm your host, Jack Spencer. Jack Haggard is producing with us again today. Jack, how are you doing, sir? I am doing very well. How are you? I'm very good. Are you excited about today's podcast? Super excited. It's going to be a good one. You should be excited as you are now. I guarantee you when this thing is done, you're going to even be more excited and you're going to be smarter. That's my promise, not just to you, Jack,

but to be smarter. That's my promise, not just to you, Jack, but to our

listeners writ large. I'm telling you, this is going to be a good one. Now, we are going to

talk nuclear again today. I know I talk a lot of nuclear, but I try. I really try to bring

different perspectives to the discussion.

And while most discussions around specific energy types are complex and can take on any number

of angles, nuclear really is unique and its complexity from a policy standpoint. There are regulatory

issues, taxpayer issues, market intervention issues, there's even geopolitical issues.

Arguably, though.

What makes nuclear different is that folks can get almost religious about it.

They either support nuclear, like I mean they really support nuclear.

It's like they forgot that producing affordable, reliable energy is the objective of this whole thing,

and they get hyper-focused on just building reactors, where the United States will say,

we should be building nuclear reactors come hell or high water.

Then that informs everything that they say or think about it.

Then there's the other side.

These are the folks that just hate nuclear and they really really hate nuclear.

They ignore all the facts, the science, the lived experience that tells us that nuclear energy is a perfectly good, safe and reliable energy source.

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