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Isaiah Taylor

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

So this is one of the things that they look at when they design these casks.

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

They look at various kinetic events.

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

They look at impact events and analyze that exact question, what would happen.

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

And the short answer is that the amount of energy that you would need to actually cause a dispersal event, it's way more worth it to bomb something else, right?

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

The outcome of that's like, yes, you could put such a strong kinetic there that theoretically, if you kept bombing it, you could get through the concrete and you can get through the containment and then you can get through the trisoparticle ceramic itself.

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

and now you've got some fissile product dispersal.

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

And then you can map how that dispersal works.

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

And in theory, you could imagine some people getting cancer and, you know, probably not that many, right?

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

Unless it's like stored in the center of New York City, which is unlikely.

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

But once you do all that math, you realize, well, with that level of ordinance, there are a lot more interesting targets to hit.

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

The outcome that you're going to get from that is not at all worth the amount of ordinance that you need to do something like that.

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

Not trying to give people ideas, but that's just not a very highly leveraged use of a terrorist event.

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

The other thing is, of course, we have lots of safeguards and protections around the nuclear fuel, right?

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

Not just fences, but like armed security and these sorts of things.

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

So, yeah, I mean, I think like the nuclear waste concern has been highly overplayed.

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

People have played it up to a degree that's just not commensurate with the facts because it's kind of the easiest target for nuclear, right?

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

It sounds scary, like, oh, there's nuclear waste and people don't know what that means.

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

But the fact is nuclear waste is the safest form of waste of any power generation.

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

It's the safest.

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

So if you look at...