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Isaiah Taylor

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

What's the first one going to go for?

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

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

The market pricing is $5,000 to $7,000 a kilowatt.

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

So if you want a gigawatt of energy, you're talking about $5 to $7 billion to purchase that gigawatt.

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

We will significantly beat that price.

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

So our goal is to be cheaper than everybody else.

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

I think we'll be more than cheaper than everybody else, and just to continuously do that year after year.

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

How long will these reactors last?

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

We plan around 20 years.

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

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.

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

You can inspect it and you say, does this have another 10 years in it?

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

And you decide yes or no.

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

You can maybe recommission it for another 10 years or you just decommission it at that point.

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

So we do our engineering around 20 years.

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

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.

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

So nuclear is a very long-term technology.

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

Part of this is the fact that there's not that many moving parts, actually.

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

They're pretty solid.

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

They're pretty stable.

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

Especially our architecture that we use uses helium.