Isaiah Taylor
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I would be more impressed if Western scientists at this point were being maniacally competent.
That would be a deviation from what I think is actually happening, which is we're all kind of wasting time.
I think most of the scientific apparatus today is like wasting time.
We're kind of pushing paper around instead of doing really, really unique edge research.
And that's because of how it's funded and how the universities are today, which is, you know, they don't like taking risks.
They don't like pushing boundaries.
You have to say the right things.
So I think it's pretty unlikely that we even have the competence to be doing anything too nefarious.
So it's actually pretty easy to visualize.
It's the size of a shipping container stood on its head.
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
just a big old heavy water bottle.
One of the really unique things about our design is how simple it is.
We try to keep this as simple as we possibly can.
Complexity means cost.
It means time.
It also means less safety, right?
So you want to keep things simple, very understandable, easy to manufacture, easy to build.
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