I realize the zeal for bombs was the driving force behind uranium US nuclear electric generation. It’s likely until a reactor replacement on an older carrier is requisitioned, the private sector won’t sink billions into unproven tech. The rest of the guy’s talk about retrieving atmospheric carbon to manufacture replacement fossil fuels sounds like another expensive pipe dream. Until liquid hydrocarbons become persistently more costly, why would anybody convert to more expensive fuel?
I think the whole reason he was peddling the ‘capture CO2 and make fuel’ stuff was because he was trying to sell his spiel to Greens. Of course that is a fool’s errand since the Greens aren’t against Nuclear just because it is Nuclear, they are against it because it allows everyone to have enough power and live in comfort. I’m pretty sure the Greens want a lifestyle of austerity for all the lesser people, while they, obviously the enlightened, can live like lords.