NuScale Power Corp (SMR)

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From the CC, a couple of snippets from John Hopkins.

One way to understand SMR:

We're very, you know, we're -- one thing we've done is a lot of monies with the $1.8 billion that's been invested in NuScale, a lot of that monies was de-risk in our module in actually scaling up and modeling to where a lot of it's off the shelf. And as we mentioned before, our fuel comes from traditional conventional fuel. Also from a supply chain, we continue to build out, but I was just with, this is John Hopkins, with the CEO of Doosan, as I mentioned during the script, that they made significant progress, anticipating the future of modules. Because as you know, our model is predicated not just to do a one-off project. These are fungible assets. We're going to build them in a factory and ship them.

And so right now, we're pretty confident we'll keep up to demand as it comes in. But we're also very cognizant, we're not going to overextend our capacity to execute, which is very key. So, with our strategic partners, and the beauty of these strategic partners in Japan and Korea and the U.S., not only the suppliers or OEMs, but they're also investors. So they're taking a holistic view, not looking at a one-off, which affords us very competitive rates from that, because the way we operate is that these suppliers recognize they have to be commercially viable. It's just not viable. They're just not given that work will come that way.

So I was just with the CEO of Doosan, my team. We're just out in Japan. And we stay in regular contact. And we continue to build our supply chain out both locally within the U.S. and international.

On the market outlook:

Well, let me just say, you know, this time last year when we talked it was all about coal refurbishment working with utilities and it quickly became more process oriented where industrials are looking at clean energy for process heat or hydrogen ammonia. And now there's the big push on energy consumption for data centers and AI. Where I think near-term we could come from is the project we mentioned in RoPower. I'm hopeful that in April, we've pretty much, Florida is the prime on this with the subcontractor. Florida is operated under a limited notice to proceed. We're in the final negotiations of our limited notice to proceed, as well as our technology licensing agreement. So the timeline right now hopefully is by early April, we'll be doing a signing ceremony to kick off this project.

So that one could be first out of the chute or again as I said before, I don't want to set an early expectation, but our project with Standard Power still continues to proceed. So, and then I will say I've never seen anything like it. This whole data center, AI, with some of the Tier 1 alphas in that industry, they need energy. And we're in discussions with not only Tier 1, but others. So it's a timing's everything, but we're just seeing the market continue to build.

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