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 · Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

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.

And they require careful consideration of the thermal gradients and the alloys.

You need high-strength materials to do that.

So that's really exciting, but we're 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.

There are always usually these giant mega projects where you dig a huge hole in the ground and you take five to 10 years or up to 15 for the slower, the bad projects out there.

But reactors that can just come ours, you know, 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.

And then it lasts five years, which is like a full oil tanker worth of diesel equivalent.

It's 2 million gallon diesel equivalent.

So it's sort of an unbelievable thing where you can grow the grid or put a microgrid anywhere.

But it's a totally different problem, I think, from the grid itself is civilization, right?

Electric power is civilization.

If you go and there's sockets and you pop something into them and you just get power, that's very well developed.

That's civilization and that's using electricity to do what you could otherwise only do with human muscle or animal muscle, right?

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