Isaiah Taylor

You want to get bigger over time because you're going to figure out those tool sets which allow you to do that, you know, a little bit at a time.

Just print these things out, stamp them out.

How fast can you make it?

So it's a good question.

And the reason that we built this thermal prototype was to prove that we can make it really fast.

so this is truly extraordinary what the team has done in the last year we have one of the most talented nuclear teams on planet earth they have deep deep experience in nuclear you know the the founding engineering team at valor had over 90 years of experience with this exact type of nuclear reactor which is a high temperature gas reactor so unbelievably experienced team and they have moved very fast so we spent about six months in engineering of the reactor so this was all on paper right design cad analysis this sort of thing

And then we spent four months fabricating it, assembling it, and commissioning it.

So four months, yes.

Four months.

Yes.

How fast do you think that will get?

I would like to see us pumping out this model of reactor essentially every two and a half weeks.

And the reason of that two and a half week constraint is it's about as fast as you can get some of the welding procedures.

So you're welding a nuclear pressure vessel, the heads, the body, the flanges, all these different things.

And there's some serialized timelines in the welding procedures and heat treating and these sorts of things that are hard to compress below two and a half weeks.

And so what we do instead is we parallelize at that point.

So we make multiple vessels at once.

On a particular site, we could be going even faster than three and a half weeks, but the time from one unit start to one unit end will probably stabilize around three weeks.

Do you think you'll stay in El Segundo?

So South Bay LA, El Segundo, or as we affectionately call it, the Gundo, is an amazing place to have a highly innovative company, to have access to the best engineers in the world.