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Isaiah Taylor

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

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

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

So four months, yes.

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

Four months.

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

Yes.

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

How fast do you think that will get?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

So we make multiple vessels at once.

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

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.

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

Do you think you'll stay in El Segundo?

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

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.

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

Truly the best engineers, the most talented fabricators, machinists, live in South Bay Los Angeles, and that's why we're there.

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

I think over time, the business will operate in many, many different places around the world.

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

We'll have nuclear reactors operating in many countries, in many states, thousands of reactors all around the world.

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

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.

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

I would put it in the thousands.

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

I would say we could have thousands of reactors chained together on a single site.