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    Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Scott Nolan from General Matter on Energy Bottlenecks

    Scott Nolan

    General Matter, founded in 2024 with a $900 million Department of Energy contract, is establishing a uranium enrichment facility in Paducah, Kentucky, to address the critical energy bottleneck constraining AI scaling. By reviving domestic enrichment capabilities that were dismantled after the Cold War, the company aims to secure a sustainable supply of nuclear fuel for Small Modular Reactors before the decade's end. This initiative directly targets the gap between stagnant global grid expansion and the aggressive power demands of industrial AI, creating high-skilled jobs while reducing reliance on foreign enrichment sources.