Isaiah Taylor
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's extremely expensive.
It's essentially emeralds.
Beryllium is essentially putting emeralds in your nuclear reactor.
And so, yeah, we think like nuclear is a technology that works really well at the shipping container plus size.
You can scale out.
Again, it's like bus-sized infrastructure.
And you can do many of them.
You can make tons of power, and the power is really cheap.
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.
But yeah, nuclear reactors, they don't like being small.
And then you have these safety concerns and you have radiation, that sort of thing.
It's nice to keep them in their own little park.
So I would say in DoD, it's in discussions.
DoD has a project called Pele.
Project Pele is this shipping container-sized reactor.
They wanted to turn a test model of this in the dome next year.
And that's a test model.
And hopefully, it'll evolve to something that can start deploying on bases.
I would say the problem is no longer in the policy side.
It's now in the engineering side.