Isaiah Taylor

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

that came from the 50s and 60s, which says that you kind of do a long design period for nuclear reactors, and then you do a long licensing period for nuclear reactors.

And at the end of that, you have a design and a license, and then you hope that somebody comes and buys your design that's stamped by a regulator, and you do a construction project and build it.

The problem with that is that we've stopped building reactors.

And so that system only works if it's something you're doing constantly.

It's something that works in steady state.

But if you ever stop, you've lost all of the skills to do that.