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Isaiah Taylor

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

It's extremely expensive.

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

It's essentially emeralds.

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

Beryllium is essentially putting emeralds in your nuclear reactor.

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

And so, yeah, we think like nuclear is a technology that works really well at the shipping container plus size.

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

You can scale out.

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

Again, it's like bus-sized infrastructure.

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

And you can do many of them.

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

You can make tons of power, and the power is really cheap.

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

When you get to small use cases, you're probably looking at, you know, using diesel, using solar, you know, using things that fit in a smaller container.

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

But yeah, nuclear reactors, they don't like being small.

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

And then you have these safety concerns and you have radiation, that sort of thing.

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

It's nice to keep them in their own little park.

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

So I would say in DoD, it's in discussions.

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

DoD has a project called Pele.

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

Project Pele is this shipping container-sized reactor.

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

They wanted to turn a test model of this in the dome next year.

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

And that's a test model.

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

And hopefully, it'll evolve to something that can start deploying on bases.

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

I would say the problem is no longer in the policy side.

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

It's now in the engineering side.