Isaiah Taylor
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What's the first one going to go for?
I'll tell you what the market pricing is for reactors, and then I'll tell you that we're going to beat that by a lot.
The market pricing is $5,000 to $7,000 a kilowatt.
So if you want a gigawatt of energy, you're talking about $5 to $7 billion to purchase that gigawatt.
We will significantly beat that price.
So our goal is to be cheaper than everybody else.
I think we'll be more than cheaper than everybody else, and just to continuously do that year after year.
How long will these reactors last?
We plan around 20 years.
And I say plan around because you design a reactor for a certain time period and you say after that you can decommission it or you can reevaluate.
You can inspect it and you say, does this have another 10 years in it?
And you decide yes or no.
You can maybe recommission it for another 10 years or you just decommission it at that point.
So we do our engineering around 20 years.
Now, a lot of the reactors that we have today were originally designed for 20 to 30 years, in some cases 40, and they've ended up running for 60, 70, and some have been licensed to keep going even further than that.
So nuclear is a very long-term technology.
Part of this is the fact that there's not that many moving parts, actually.
They're pretty solid.
They're pretty stable.
Especially our architecture that we use uses helium.