Isaiah Taylor

That's how you get deep efficiencies.

The second thing that I realized was that the reason that hasn't happened yet is essentially because the regulatory environment has become too restricted for one specific thing, and that is testing.

So the regulatory framework for testing became very onerous and pretty much impossible.

And so people have had these ideas before.

People have thought about like, well, maybe we should try to make reactors smaller.

And there's been a lot of people who have tried that.

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.