Isaiah Taylor

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

Micro reactors are 0 to 20 megawatts.

SMR, small modular reactors, are 20 to about 300.

And then above 300, you're just sort of the classic gigawatt scale large reactors.

So we're kind of in the lower range of SMRs.

Our first commercial unit will be around 25 megawatts electric.

What does that mean?

For somebody like me, that means nothing.

Yeah, it's a good question.

So a 25 megawatt electric unit will power a small town.

So if you want to do, you know, if you want to power a big town, you put several of them next to each other.

And this is a common strategy for nuclear.

Pretty much every nuclear site doesn't have just one nuclear unit on it has several.

Okay.

But we sort of take that to the logical conclusion and we say we don't just build it.

Normally it's like four, right?

So you have a site, you put like four units on it.

We want to have a site and put hundreds of units on it eventually.

To start off with, if you want to make a gigawatt, put 40 down.

So 40 units next to each other at 25 megawatt electric nameplate is a gigawatt of power.

Now you're powering a big city, or you're powering several towns, several cities, a significant portion of the grid.

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