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Isaiah Taylor

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

I would be more impressed if Western scientists at this point were being maniacally competent.

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

That would be a deviation from what I think is actually happening, which is we're all kind of wasting time.

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

I think most of the scientific apparatus today is like wasting time.

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

We're kind of pushing paper around instead of doing really, really unique edge research.

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

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.

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

They don't like pushing boundaries.

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