Operator: Good morning, everyone. My name is Dennis, and I will be your operator today. Welcome to the Sigma Lithium Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2023 Earnings Conference Call.
took somebody to a plant gate before the election. that plant gate is one of the things that made me say donald trump could win two years ago. and i m going to tell you, they were still feisty and i heard a lot of different comments. but there were people who walked out of that plant who said, before donald trump became president, i was working overtime, and they had just come off a two-week layoff. we have to talk about these issues. the auto industry is a cyclical industry. it s had the longest period of good sales and now you ve got people talking about layoffs. we all have to work together to keep our economy strong. how do we make sure we re supporting manufacturing? there are going to be some really honest conversations about that. and i ll tell you something else, people in my state haven t forgotten that fear and that anxiety of ten years ago when we did almost go bankrupt and some of the companies did. and they worked a lifetime and thought they would be secure.
human health within the plant, by the time you move from the reactor to the plant gate, it s around about 100 feet, they drop markedly and over time continue to go down. by the time you go out to the end of the exclusion zone, if you re talking about negligible amounts. that s based on the data that we have and based on what we know now. what we don t know the is what would happen if it got a lot worse. that s why you re talking about contingencies, moving 200,000 people from their homes as they have done and the suggestion coming from the united states that american citizens say 50 miles away. that s a contingency plan for the worst case scenario. stan, thanks very much for continuing to keep us up to date. stan grant. here s our question of the day. i ve done this for a couple of days because it s a big question. should nuclear power be used as a source of energy? why or why not. i ve already had people say it s a stupid question.