Isaiah Taylor
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And then we spent four months fabricating it, assembling it, and commissioning it.
So four months, yes.
Four months.
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.
Truly the best engineers, the most talented fabricators, machinists, live in South Bay Los Angeles, and that's why we're there.
I think over time, the business will operate in many, many different places around the world.
We'll have nuclear reactors operating in many countries, in many states, thousands of reactors all around the world.
I'm not sure exactly where the center of gravity will go, but as long as there are very smart people in South Bay LA that are working for us and that we need access to, it makes sense for us to be there.
I would put it in the thousands.
I would say we could have thousands of reactors chained together on a single site.