Doug Bernauer

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511 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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The a16z Show · How Radiant and Heron Are Rethinking Power Generation and Delivery · 31 Mar 2026 podcast

And actually the funny thing is like in 2020, I said in 2026, I will put a full scale reactor and get it critical and get it up to full power.

Um, and we're on schedule to do that, which is kind of wild.

Um, and it's not,

like that was really the actual plan, but it was just, I was resilient to all the challenges that were put in the way.

We are now the only reactor permitted to, of these new reactors to go to full power.

So a lot of others are getting to critical, which doesn't mean you get to high temperatures or high power.

And those things are very challenging on all the parts in the system, right?

And they require careful consideration of the thermal gradients and the alloys, right?

You need high strength materials to do that.

That's really exciting, but we're like not quite there yet.

And I think if we're doing the same discussion next year, it's going to be dramatically different because we're going to be able to point at all these different designs, what you could do with them.

And I think the products like nuclear reactors as products has never been seen before.

All right.

They're always usually these giant mega projects where you dig a huge hole in the ground and you take five to 10 years to

or up to 15 for the slower, the bad projects out there.

But reactors that can just come, we're targeting one per week coming off of a production line from our Tennessee facility, which is an 80-acre site we just signed for in October, not even a year ago.

I want to tie back into the grid because I was just, I had some interesting thoughts and we really, our product is for off the grid, right?

So megawatt reactor on a trailer and you can, we build in our factory, we drive it or fly it to where the customer wants it to go and then turn it on within like 48 hours.

We go, you know, wheels stop moving and then we go to power on your site in that amount of time.

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