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John Lemond

John Lemond

Growth Lead, Sustainable Operations, Smart Building Services and Energy Engineering at JLL; 20+ years in energy engineering and real estate decarbonization.

Jul 16, 2026

11:09
Can you talk a little bit about the trajectory of nuclear energy, how it kind of went from, you know, the power source of the future in the 60s and 70s to something that was feared and scrutinized in the 80s and 90s to its revival today?
11:30
I think it's a fascinating history.
11:31
And the arc of that history is quite dramatic.
11:35
It really is.
11:37
I mean, in the 1950s, nuclear was a national optimism project.
11:42
Dwight Eisenhower gave a speech, Atoms for Peace, in 1953 that, you know, deterred use of nuclear armament and nuclear weapons and kind of helped springboard the use of nuclear for democracy.
11:57
peaceful energy production.
15:10
regulatory patchwork is going to work out? Do you think states that highly regulate it will probably not build reactors?

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