Government energy subsidies for wind and solar have created financial disincentives that hindered private investment and R&D in nuclear energy, causing the US to fall behind.

“the subsidies, while they may have benefited those two particular industries, created a financial disincentive for investing in nuclear. And so there's always a loser. And the loser isn't always necessarily the target.”

Government energy subsidies for wind and solar have been successful in driving down costs and increasing capacity, and nuclear power does not need to be pitted against them.

“I don't think we have to treat them the same. I'm 100% with you that we should be subsidizing nuclear power. It's clean. It's base load. It's reliable. We could do small module reactors. They can be used for data centers. All of the above. We don't have to pit our children against each other.”