How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
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Welcome to War two fifty, first advanced reactor to ever make power by startup.
We did something pretty awesome today. The first ever AI chip powered by a nuclear reactor. First Triso reactor to turn on in over fifty years in The United States.
How much of the premise of Valor is possible now comes from increasing demands for power in The United States largely driven by AI compute?
Energy being a commodity, the demand is set by the price. If you can figure out how to make energy cheaper, you will have demand. When SpaceX started going, people were like, there's no way they're gonna hit the numbers that they're hitting today. Most of the nuclear industry is a modeling and simulation industry. They're not focused on hardware iteration, hardware execution, building the simplest and safest reactor that allows them to scale. And Valor just demonstrated that we are.
Hi, listeners. Welcome back to No Priors. Today, I'm here with Isaiah Taylor, the founder and CEO of Valor Atomics. We're here in their Utah nuclear facility, where we're gonna do a tour, talk about why speed and scale are the only path to making nuclear reactors in The United States again, why energy is the only input to our hyper techno industrial future, and why there's an open regulatory environment for progress in energy R and D for the first time in years. Welcome. Isaiah, thanks so much for doing this.
Of course. Welcome to Valor Atomics at San Rafael. Thanks for coming.
So what is what are you doing here at Valor?
We are making nuclear reactors built for planetary scale. So nuclear fission is kind of an old technology. It's around the nineteen forties that we really started working on it. And we've built a lot of nuclear reactors, but we've never built them for mass scale. Nuclear has never had its Ford moment or its Tesla moment, if you wanna put it that way. And that's what Valor Atomics is working on doing. We have nuclear reactors that are more manufactured than constructed, and, they're extremely safe. And we think the combination of these two things is going to allow us to scale nuclear fission an
We're gonna dig into why you think this is possible and why you're making it happen after decades of like no real activity in this space. But first, for you personally, you don't have the, you know, credentialed decades of nuclear research background that is often required to work in this space. Like, you know, why you and what triggered it?
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