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Isaiah Taylor

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

Like, there's no boxing each other out.

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

If you can get NatGas on faster than I can get nuclear on, power to you, right?

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

We're all going as fast as we can, and we're still not going to be able to catch up to the actual demand for generation.

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

So I think there's a little bit more camaraderie than there was maybe 20, 30 years ago.

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

You know, also, when it comes to the

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

Yeah.

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.