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Isaiah Taylor

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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.

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

Helium is inert, so we don't have a lot of chemical reactions and corrosions in the core, that sort of thing.

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

So I think they'll last a long time, but we plan around 20 years.

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

Are you working with Scott Nolan at all?

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

So Scott's working on uranium enrichment, which is extremely important.

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

We need to be able to enrich more uranium.

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

We've built our reactors around low enriched uranium.

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

So he's working on solving the HALU problem.

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

So HALU is high SA, low enriched uranium.

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

It's essentially uranium enriched from uranium

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

5% to 20%, anywhere in that range, we use below 5%.

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

The reason we do that is it exists today.

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

Scott's solving a problem of we just don't have Halo.

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

Russia makes it, we're not buying it from Russia.

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

We have some stockpiles which we're trying to figure out how to make available for test quantities.

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

But if you need these sort of like advanced types of reactors, you need HALU.