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Isaiah Taylor

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

We have to say,

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

We need power, right?

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

Power is existential.

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

If people don't have power, they die during the winter or they die in heat stroke during the summer.

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

And so you don't get to choose between zero deaths and zero deaths.

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

You're choosing between civilizational existence or die out and some level of death that is going to happen, right?

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

And in coal, there's a number.

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

In gas, there's a number.

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

In solar, there's a number.

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

And actually, nuclear has the lowest number.

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

nuclear has the fewest deaths per generated power of any form of energy generation.

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

So it is simply the safest.

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

What would happen if China were to hit your reactors?

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

So our reactors in particular, we get a lot of benefit out of two things.

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

One is the fact that our reactors are very low power density.

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

So what does that mean?

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

It just means per unit volume of our reactors, there's not as much fissile material inside of them.

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

So we have a lot of benefit out of the box in just that our, you know, as a target, it's a low density target, right?

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

You don't get a lot of bang for your buck.

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

The other thing is that triso itself is an extremely, extremely powerful ceramic, right?