Isaiah Taylor

So you are, it's interesting, the strength of a sphere scales inversely with its size.

So what that means is the smaller the sphere, the stronger it is proportionally.

And so you take that to the limit, and this is a technology that American scientists invented.

The reason they did this is that you can wrap these very, very small beads of uranium about the tip of a ballpoint pen in these extremely strong ceramics.

And proportionally, that ceramic coating around the uranium pellet is actually stronger than a containment dome.

So if you look at a traditional nuclear reactor today, you have these big concrete containment domes, and those domes are built to answer the question you asked, like, what if you dropped a bomb?

What if you crashed a plane?

These sorts of things.

And so they have these highly engineered, strong concrete domes to try to prevent that.

But we actually build the dome into the fuel with Triso.

So the fuel itself contains all of these tiny domes around them.

And those domes are actually stronger than a massive engineered concrete dome.

So in some sort of kinetic event, you are much less likely to have those ceramic spheres bursting, essentially, than what would happen if you crashed one into an existing nuclear dome.

Yes.

Valor is a very unique place.

It's very unique in nuclear.

We really fundamentally believe that in order to build nuclear reactors, you need to build nuclear reactors.

This sounds facetious, but it's not.

It sounds exactly like what it sounds like.

There's a philosophy