The Scott Jennings Show has launched a new interview series called Investing in America, highlighting companies that are betting on America’s future by creating jobs, building technology, and strengthening our economy. For the first installment, Scott sat down with Stephen Long, CEO of Global Laser Enrichment, to talk about how one American company is leading a nuclear energy comeback.
GLE has already invested more than half a billion dollars and employs over a hundred people, forty percent of them veterans. Its supply chain stretches across the country, from small shops to major manufacturers, helping rebuild America’s industrial capacity in nuclear, lasers, and electronics. And thanks to streamlined licensing and a renewed focus on nuclear from President Trump and Congress, Long says the company is on track to bring its technology online later this decade.
Long describes GLE’s impact this way: “We plan to create over a thousand jobs during construction in Kentucky and have three to four hundred long-term, high-paying jobs once the plant is operational. And that’s just the beginning—the Paducah project alone will inject $4.5 billion into the regional economy.”
At the center of GLE’s promise is the SILEX process, a next-generation enrichment technology. Long explains, “It’s more efficient, we can produce more material for each device, and we’re helping utilities diversify supply. Just as important, it’s an American-led innovation that ensures we’re not dependent on Russia or China for nuclear fuel.”
That issue of foreign dependence is front and center today. The U.S. currently imports a significant share of enriched uranium from Russia—a strategic vulnerability that adversaries have not hesitated to exploit. Long was blunt about what’s at stake: “Most of the enrichment supply chain today is dominated by state-owned entities overseas, especially Russia. That’s simply not acceptable if we want secure, reliable energy. Our mission is to onshore that capacity and restore America’s leadership.”
The company’s leadership sees nuclear as essential not just to clean energy but to America’s strategic position in the world. “Nuclear is the only foundation we can build to achieve our energy, economic, and geopolitical goals,” Long told Jennings. “The economics for wind and solar will always be limited. They’ll have their place in niche applications, but to power AI data centers, to grow our economy, and to keep America strong, only nuclear can deliver.”
With projects underway in North Carolina and Kentucky, Global Laser Enrichment is showing what investing in America looks like: innovation, jobs, energy security, and a stronger future powered by American technology—not by foreign adversaries.
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