Isaiah Taylor

They don't actually want to do the damn work.

The NRC is not built for R&D.

It's built for it.

You need to come to us with a plant that is 100% ready to build all over the United States.

Private nuclear companies can do R&D again in real hardware with real neutrons, you know, real uranium, and then get ready for commercialization.

Isaiah Taylor, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's an honor to be here in this incredibly inspiring room.

Lots of mementos in here that are sick.

So yeah, I'm excited to talk.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

I think it's either all the energy grid will be sucked up by 2030 or we'll fall behind.

We'll fall behind on AI, which I think is unacceptable.

This is a red-hot screaming problem that has to be solved.

It's a national security issue.

I think if you're working in energy, you're working on something really important.

That's right.

So small modular reactors, the technical term, there's sort of three categories.

Micro reactors are 0 to 20 megawatts.