Aug 19, 2026 · 42 min · 10 segments
In the final installment of my follow up series with nuclear companies, I spoke with Jonathan Webb, the co-founder and CEO of The Nuclear Company. For those who don’t know, TNC is pursuing a…
Emmett PenneyHost
So if I'm hearing you correctly, Year Y, part of what TNC is doing is continuing this great American legacy of big baseload power that is exactly what this country needs to remain strong, resilient, abundant, robust.

And that is part of what gets you out of bed in the morning to keep fighting this fight.
All of those plants that are operating today, something we don't talk about is we do have the best nuclear operators in the world.
Not only have we built the plants, we thought they were going to last 30, 40, 50 years.
And so whether it's the new designs coming to market and different ways in which to attack the problem where we're manufacturing offsite.
But yeah, I just... we're here to support the industry regardless of reactor type.
But again, I didn't, I just, I, I don't love the idea that we can't feel direct things either.

So if I'm hearing you correctly, Year Y, part of what TNC is doing is continuing this great American legacy of big baseload power that is exactly what this country needs to remain strong, resilient, abundant, robust.

And that is part of what gets you out of bed in the morning to keep fighting this fight.
All of those plants that are operating today, something we don't talk about is we do have the best nuclear operators in the world.
Not only have we built the plants, we thought they were going to last 30, 40, 50 years.
And so whether it's the new designs coming to market and different ways in which to attack the problem where we're manufacturing offsite.
But yeah, I just... we're here to support the industry regardless of reactor type.
But again, I didn't, I just, I, I don't love the idea that we can't feel direct things either.
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