Isaiah Taylor

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The Shawn Ryan Show · #219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics · 17 Jul 2025 podcast

This sounds super basic, but I think it's true.

We're really good at building small things, and we're really bad at building big things.

So especially now, right?

In the 50s and 60s, we were building huge civil infrastructure projects, and we were super good at that.

And we had massive...

pools of labor that were really good at that, right?

People who could lay rebar really well, people who could do mass concrete laying, who could build very large structures, who were super good at large-scale welding.

And those skills and pieces of labor sort of atrophied over the last 50 years, which is unfortunate, but it's true.

And then the other thing is like tooling so we don't have the capacity for like extremely large-scale forging anymore, right?

We're just not good at forging extremely large objects as well as we were so I looked at both of these things and Saw that like okay if you're gonna reboot nuclear today You need to be inside the labor and tool chain that exists which means smaller objects, right?

We're really good at making objects about the size of a bus

If you try to make an object larger than approximately a bus in at least the Western supply chains, you're going to have a really hard time, right?

The tools just don't exist.

You're going to have to be making custom tools.

You're going to have to be using pools of labor, which cost a lot of money.

And like, there just aren't enough people trained.

So that was kind of my first conclusion is like, it's probably going to be a bus sized object.

And then if that's not making enough power, then you just make more of them, right?

And that's very in line with manufacturing.

You want to make the same thing over and over.

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