Isaiah Taylor

but they kind of ran into the brick wall of nuclear regulation and were not able to get those prototypes off the ground.

And so taking these two conclusions, my formulation for like how do you fix nuclear energy when I was 15 is we're going to make smaller reactors,

we're gonna find a regulatory framework where we can rapidly move through prototypes, which means we're gonna find a very unconventional regulatory path to do testing.

And then finally, once you have a nuclear site, we're gonna build tons of reactors on that site, right?

So you don't just build one, you don't just build four, you build 100 or 200 or 1,000, all in the same place.

And the reason for this is that the most complicated part of nuclear is not actually the physical reactor itself,

Reactors are medium complicated.

I would argue that a nuclear reactor is less complicated than a diesel engine, for example.

It's significantly less complicated than a diesel engine.

Oh, shit.

It is, yeah.

They're mechanically simple machines.

The thing that's complicated about them is the permission to do them on a certain patch of land.

So you pick a piece of land and the process to go from it's an empty patch to the reactor sitting there through permitting, through environmental work, through community buy-in, through construction, security.

There's a lot of factors that go into getting nuclear to happen somewhere.

Once you've done that, you've done the hard part.

And so the natural conclusion is you should double down on that.

So you already have a nuclear site.

Why not keep building reactors there and keep doing that way more than anyone thinks is possible?

So this is really sort of the core DNA of Valor, and these are conclusions that I had when I was 15, and I've really been working on that now for the last 10 years.