Isaiah Taylor

The people who were there have retired or died.

The people who could have done those exact pieces of construction have retired or died.

We don't have the tooling anymore.

So you actually have to build nuclear to build nuclear.

And for us, it means starting very small.

So we start with a very small, very simple, very safe reactor that we can build very quickly and we get experience in the hardware.

And we started that really on day zero of hiring the first engineer in the company.

And we designed what's called a thermal prototype.

So that's what's sitting in Los Angeles today.

It's a thermal prototype is essentially you build a nuclear reactor, but you don't put uranium in it yet.

You put electrical resistors and you can get those electrical resistors up to the same temperature as a nuclear reaction.

So you get to essentially simulate what if this were a real nuclear reactor with electrical heat.

And so that's essentially what we've done.

We did it in one year.

It's the fastest that a thermal prototype has ever been developed.

It's also the most sophisticated thermal prototype ever developed.

It genuinely is a nuclear reactor.

We built a nuclear reactor in one year.

without putting uranium in it and now the next step for the company is to go do it again but actually put uranium in it and actually turn it on and this is going to give us a lot of experience right we're actually going to have split the atom which is something that not many people can claim and then we'll do it again and we'll do it again and that's how this is going to progress it's going to progress through real hardware through real prototypes through actually splitting atoms

And you can always get more sophisticated later, but you start very simple, very, very safe, and you get real experience as fast as you can.