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Isaiah Taylor

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

You have to say the right things.

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

So I think it's pretty unlikely that we even have the competence to be doing anything too nefarious.

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

Yeah.

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

So it's actually pretty easy to visualize.

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

It's the size of a shipping container stood on its head.

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

so 20 foot iso cube and uh it's basically the the whole reactor vessel kind of sitting inside that frame you can kind of think about this like a big water bottle right it's a shipping shipping container sized water bottle and it's full of nuclear grade graphite and uh and we'll put you know uranium in that eventually so

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

just a big old heavy water bottle.

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

One of the really unique things about our design is how simple it is.

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

We try to keep this as simple as we possibly can.

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

Complexity means cost.

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

It means time.

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

It also means less safety, right?

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

So you want to keep things simple, very understandable, easy to manufacture, easy to build.

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

um we'll make that a little bit bigger over time so it'll go at least 1.7 times larger and that'll be a little bit more powerful but to start off with we have essentially one big vessel inside of a of a container and we have other containers on the side as well which do other things so that's like the main nuclear vessel and then we have a power conversion uh skid next to it that actually spins a turbine and has the helium flowing through it and that sort of thing

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

So we keep it really simple, and we try to keep it manufacturable.

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

That's really the thing that we focused on, safety and manufacturability.

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

We want to build these really, really fast.

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

How big are you going to go?

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

So this is a good question, and I think I am purposefully trying to make sure I don't think I know the answer to it yet.

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

I have ideas.