Kai Risdahl

Hey, Doug, Kai, Rizdal, nice to see you.

How are you?

Hi, nice to see you.

Nuclear energy is the topic du jour.

Billions of dollars in investment are going into companies in this industry that are developing new nuclear technology that's in super high demand, in no small part because of AI and data centers and the ever-increasing amount of power this economy is going to need.

Tell us who you are and where we are.

Most nuclear reactors aren't made this way, nor is our economy using enough of them for them to be built and sold at scale.

Yet.

The 150-ish people who work here at Radiant, engineers of all kinds for the most part, are trying to change that.

Describe for me the thing you are trying to, but you are going to build, not trying, sorry.

You're going to build it.

In layperson's terms, what does that mean, one megawatt?

All right.

So you're building one of those?

Idaho National Laboratory is part of the Department of Energy.

It's been involved with nuclear research for decades now.

Radian's micro-reactor was selected by the federal government for testing there, where it will be put through its paces to make sure it works the way Doug and his team are hoping.

The one megawatt reactor you're building, what are you going to do with it?

Why are you building it?

It sort of depends who... And a couple of gazillion dollars.