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Isaiah Taylor

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

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

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

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

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

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

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So you already have a nuclear site.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

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

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So we built two.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

We built two.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So two units turned on in Georgia, Vogel 3 and Vogel 4.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So these were sort of additions to an existing plant.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

And those turned on in, I think 2019 and 2020, I believe is when those turned on.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So we have two.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Now that project was a disaster.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

It was eight years over timeline and about $15 billion over budget.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So it's a travesty, really.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Power should be cheap, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

The whole point of nuclear is that it's cheap.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

That should be the point of nuclear, at least.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So I would say that that was a failure.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

And Hinkley Point C in the UK is another example of this.