Almost a year ago, I was driving through the Idaho desert near INL when it finally clicked. America is attempting to do something never done before: restart an entire industry. For more than thirty years, we largely stopped building nuclear reactors. But, while most people weren't paying attention, a new generation quietly prepared for the day that might change. Then came May 2025. President Trump signed four executive orders designed to accelerate American nuclear. One of them set an extraordinary goal for three advanced reactor companies to go critical by July 4, 2026. Almost overnight, what had been simmering became a race. I found myself with a front-row seat. I realized I had something few people have… access. And with that access came a responsibility to document this story as it unfolds. Over the past eight months, our documentary crew has gone inside laboratories, construction sites, control rooms, government offices, and startup headquarters. We watched brilliant people wrestle with impossible engineering problems, politics, tight deadlines and tons of uncertainty. At first I thought we were making a documentary about nuclear, but I was wrong. Nuclear is just the lens. The real story is something much bigger. It's about whether America can still build big things. It's about people willing to devote years of their lives to projects they might never see through. Today, we're releasing a sneak peek into what will become The Last Renaissance. This is where it begins. Whether this nuclear renaissance succeeds or fails, historians will look back on this moment. Over the coming months and years, we'll continue giving you glimpses from inside this journey, bringing you along as one of the most ambitious industrial revivals in modern American history unfolds in real time. And when it all comes together, it will become a feature-length documentary. For now, we're still in it. History almost never feels historic while you're living through it. This time, we're making sure no side of the story goes untold.

Incredibly proud of all my friends who were in the oval office today to celebrate achieving the goal of three nuclear reactors going critical @DeployableE @isaiah_p_taylor @MattLoszak @jordanbramble @OverReactor1776 I feel immensely privileged to be following this story in real time through The Last Renaissance. We will be dropping a sneak peek on the race to criticality tomorrow 👀

Mind blowing that @DeployableE, a two year old company, came out of nowhere and went critical before the July 4th deadline. All of that with only *twelve* employees! Extremely impressive.

In the last five days I witnessed things thought impossible just a year ago. A two year old company with only twelve employees turned on a tiny, portable reactor for the first time. A squad of twenty-something year olds became the first startup in history to generate nuclear electricity and power a chip. From DC, to the desert of Idaho to the Utah plateau, the indomitable American spirit made itself present. It manifested in ambitious disruptors who looked at the doubters right in the face and said: just watch me. What I love the most about the American nuclear renaissance is that it’s about way more than nuclear. It’s about more than electricity, or climate change or data centers. It’s fundamentally about reconnecting with that raw, defiant American spirit. With the radical optimist view that America can and will. We build stuff. We dream bigger than everyone else. We do the impossible. 🇺🇸 Happy 250th birthday to the best country on Earth 🇺🇸