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Isaiah Taylor

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

Perfect.

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

Any anything else with policy shift that you want to chat about?

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

Yeah, it's really interesting if you think about where nuclear policy was in the United States from its inception

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

Nuclear policy started as essentially what I would call protectionism, right?

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

We wanted to protect what we had.

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

And what we had was essentially a total monopoly on nuclear energy and nuclear technology.

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

We're the only ones who knew how to do it.

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

Germany was trying to figure it out.

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

Britain caught up pretty fast.

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

The USSR caught up pretty fast.

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

But in the very earliest days, this was a total American monopoly.

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

And our first policies around nuclear were built to protect that monopoly and to keep this as sort of like a closely guarded government secret that doesn't get anywhere else in the world.

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

But as things happen in technology, other people did figure it out, right?

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

USSR figured it out.

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

They became very good at building reactors.

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

China figured it out.

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

They're now getting very good at building reactors and reactors are getting built all over the world.

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

So the new directive from the Trump administration is about dominance.

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

And I'd say this is a shift from protectionism to dominance.

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

The new nuclear policy in the United States is that we need to be the best in the world.