Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Lunch, our afternoon update on today's market action, news, and analysis.

Good afternoon. Today is Tuesday, March 11th, and I'm your host, Kim Kahn. Our top story so far.

Alphabet is looking to lower the cost of building new nuclear reactors by deploying smaller ones

through its deal with Chiris power. President Ruth Porat told CNBC the deal, signed in October,

is part of Alphabet's efforts to meet surging electricity needs to power AI work. The first small

modular reactor under the deal is expected to be brought online by 2030, followed by more

deployments in 2035. Borat highlighted needs to move quickly to build new plants that replicate

the construction process to drive down the cost curve. If we don't start now in a focused way and

replicate a number of them, which is why that Chyrus multi-trunch is an important kind of proof point, we're going to not be able to drive

down the cost curve, she said. Next Energy, CEO John Ketchum, said nuclear energy is unlikely

to become a power solution until 2035 or after. Next year, the world's largest producer

of wind and solar energy, owns five nuclear power

plants.

In today's trading, stocks are choppy after another shakeout, but the VIX volatility

index continues to move to new highs for the year.

The question today is, are buyers starting to see opportunities?

David Morrison, senior market analyst at Trade Nation, says

yesterday's stock market sell-off followed on from last week's negative performance,

yet little has really changed. Non-farm payrolls are fine, and most economic data points

are holding up. Realtale sales were weak, and confidence indicators are a concern. But for now,

the sell-off looks like an overdue

correction, which should reset some over-violated stocks and restore some sanity to the market.

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