Tim Stenovec

And it's a really exciting day for Valor.

It's a great question.

There are a lot of people tackling this very, very difficult problem of how do we make all of the energy needs that America has in the future?

You know, the thing that sets Valor apart is two things.

One is that we're building very quickly.

You know, when we started this company, we realized that there was a gap in the physical hardware.

We wanted to actually build reactors and test them out very rapidly.

I started this company about two years ago, and earlier this year we unveiled our fully complete thermal prototype of our reactor.

That's just incredible speed.

We haven't seen that kind of speed in nuclear in a long time.

The other thing that sets us apart is that we want to build these to be manufacturable.

We're sort of moving away from this era of nuclear that's driven by construction and more into mass manufacturing.

We want to pump these things out like they're a car, like they're a bus.

And that's what's going to drive the cost down and also add a lot to safety as well.

Before you pump these things out, though, you've got to build one single example of one that actually works.

And here in the United States,

There is still no example of a small modular reactor that is up and running, that is online.

Taking your company out of the mix, just when do you think there will be an example of that in the US?

That's exactly right.

We don't have any small modular reactors running in the US today.