So nuclear energy today, fission based energy is an available form of carbon, free energy generation that suffers from two problems.
One is cost and people are working on that, and two is waste. And so if that problem could be solved, it certainly should make nuclear energy and thus decarbonization much, much more accessible.
So we want to take on that challenge.
And everything we're doing is really perfecting the skills we need actually to be very cost effective in recycling waste. Our goal is to take nuclear waste, turn it into liquid form.
Separate out materials of value, separate out a form that can go back into reactors. That's about 96% of the waste stream right there, and then, of the remaining 4% there's a very small fraction that's really long lived waste, and isolate that for treatment.
Just up to that point, we've already created a ton of value. We've removed 96% of the waste we've allowed fission to say our fuel is now our waste, so we're generating a lot less waste as a result.
And we also have this longer term fusion narrative, which says the next scale for fusion is to use those fusion neutrons, again to do transmutation, but this time at a larger scale, and instead of turning low value materials into hyper valuable materials, we're actually taking harmful materials and either making them benign or valuable.
