After years in the wilderness, it’s a good time to be a nuclear startup.

β€œFor the first half a decade that I was telling people I was doing nuclear, I had to convince them, β€˜Hey, here’s why nuclear is important,’” Bret Kugelmass, founder and CEO of Last Energy, told TechCrunch. β€œNow everyone just comes to us saying, β€˜Oh yeah, of course nuclear is a key part of the solution.’ I’m like, okay, great, I’m glad everyone’s caught up now.”

Last Energy is building small modular reactors β€” compact nuclear power plants that can be mass-manufactured to reduce costs.

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