This is Macro Voices, the free weekly financial podcast targeting professional finance,

high net worth individuals, family offices, and other sophisticated investors.

Macrovoices is all about the brightest minds in the world of finance

and macroeconomics telling it like it is, bullish or bearish, no holds barred. Now, here are

your hosts, Eric Townsend and Patrick Suresna. Macrovoices episode 522 is produced on March 5 March 5, 26. I'm Eric Townsend.

As our longtime listeners already know, I'm passionate about nuclear energy.

But I think the nuclear renaissance may be off on the wrong foot.

The nuclear industry has been very slow to recognize my vision that this moment in history demands revolutionary

rather than evolutionary change to the way that we build nuclear power. I've argued on

Substac that we need to mass produce entire modular nuclear power plants, not just reactors,

in gigafactories with fully robotic assembly lines

at massive scale in order to a global energy crisis when fossil fuel production becomes

prohibitively expensive in the 2030s. So when Allo Atomics, a company that seems to share my vision

almost perfectly hit my radar screen recently,

I wanted to share their vision for nuclear energy with our macrovoices audience.

Allo's CEO, Matt Lozak, will join me as this week's feature interview guest,

and we'll talk about the big picture of what the advanced nuclear industry needs to do

in order to bring the cost of

nuclear energy down to the cost of energy from fossil fuels. VCs in the audience, you're not

going to want to miss this one. Allo expects to have their first prototype advanced nuclear reactor

up and running by 4th of July of this year, and they're shopping their series C term

sheet right now. Obviously, the developing situation in Iran is driving markets this week,

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