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Isaiah Taylor

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Founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear-reactor company founded in 2023.

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  1. Our reading

    Nuclear has never had its Ford moment: reactors have to be manufactured rather than constructed before fission can be cheap.

    Their wordsNuclear's never had its Ford moment or its Tesla moment, if you want to 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 uh they're extremely safe and we think the combination of these two things is going to allow us to scale nuclear fision and make energy 10 times cheaper for humanity.
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    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 1st of 18 in this recording

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  3. Our reading

    America stopped building reactors because Three Mile Island was mismanaged as a public-relations event, not because anyone was harmed by it.

    Their wordsNow, nobody died, right? Uh in fact, not only did nobody die, nobody was injured and there was no radiation dose to the public. But, uh it was sort of a optics and PR situation um that was mismanaged in many many different ways and the public uh became fearful and and lost interest in nuclear.
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  5. Our reading

    Small modular reactors are the right idea, but you only reach them by iterating on real hardware -- which is what everyone else missed.

    Their wordswhat was missing is that people did not realize that you're going to have to pursue that model through hardware iteration. And that's where really where Valor is unique is that yes, we believe in SMRs, we believe in reactors that are manufactured, but we also know that in order to get there, you have to do it through hardware iteration.
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  7. Our reading

    Most of the nuclear industry is a modelling and simulation business producing paper reactors, not a business that builds them.

    Their wordsif you look at the nuclear industry outside of Valor, it's mostly a modeling and simulation uh industry. Like when you think of a nuclear company, right, there's like nuclear companies out there that everyone knows the name of. And you kind of look under the cover. It's actually a modeling and simulation company, right? They produce um very very precise what we call paper reactors which have really good predictions of how a theoretical thing might behave.
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  9. Our reading

    The legal pathway to test new reactors sat unused in American law for forty years, waiting for an administration to use it.

    Their wordsit's just been sitting there in legislation for like 40 years and no one's really taken advantage of it except for one government program here or there where they want to, you know, do a NASA space reactor or something like that. But it has from a legal perspective been waiting for an administration to say, "Hey, this might be a way to accelerate nuclear R&D."
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  11. Our reading

    Nuclear is empirically the safest form of energy -- safer even than solar, once you count the people who fall off roofs.

    Their wordsNuclear energy is the safest form of energy empirically. If you look at the amount of power generated versus the amount amount of deaths, um it's even safer than solar, which is very strange because how does someone die from solar? that actually most solar is installed on roofs and people sometimes die falling off of a roof installing solar and if you add those deaths up it is actually a higher death per energy than the totality of nuclear energy in the world.
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    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 6th of 18 in this recording

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  13. Our reading

    Nuclear safety should be pursued by reducing the consequence of an accident rather than its odds, because something unpredictable always happens.

    Their wordsThe alternative way that you can reduce risk is actually just reducing consequence, right? And we would argue that that's a much better way to reduce risk. Odds uh are stochastic, right? Even if you do an enormous amount of risk reduction on odds and you do all this engineering, something's still going to happen, right? like just something's going to come out of left field and you can't predict everything.
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  15. Our reading

    Nuclear is a hardware execution problem, not a design problem, and the companies treating it as a design problem are mistaken.

    Their wordsI would make one big division in nuclear companies and it is people who believe that nuclear is essentially a hardware execution problem and people who believe that it's a design problem. Um Valor is solidly in the camp that we believe this is a hardware and execution problem.
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    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 8th of 18 in this recording

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  17. Our reading

    The cheapest energy will come from a simple mass-produced reactor rather than the best design -- nuclear's problem is the Toyota Camry problem.

    Their wordsBut the problem of nuclear today is like the Toyota Camry problem, right? Like we don't want to make Lamborghinis. We want to make a very simple, very cheap, very safe reactor that we can make literally tens of thousands of. Um and actually that is going to make the cheapest energy in the world, right?
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    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 9th of 18 in this recording

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  19. Our reading

    Valar will get to the point of turning on a new reactor every few minutes.

    Their wordsUm and we will get it down to minutes. Um this company will get will will get to the point where we have a new reactor turning on every few minutes.
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  21. Our reading

    The economics of nuclear are set by how fast and cheaply you can produce plants, not by fuel -- uranium is already cheap.

    Their wordsif you look at the um the economics of nuclear it really is driven by how quickly and cheaply can you produce plants right the uranium is very cheap right the the fuel is very cheap. The question is, can you produce plants quickly and cheaply?
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  23. Our reading

    Energy demand is set by price: reduce the price and you create the demand, which makes the market for cheap energy effectively infinite.

    Their wordsenergy being a commodity, the demand is set by the price, right? So if you can reduce the price, you increase the demand.
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  25. Our reading

    Most nuclear companies will not have this solved by 2031, and many still will not by 2035, because they have the wrong mindset.

    Their wordsif you're looking at the nuclear space today, you don't expect people to have this problem solved in 2031. In fact, I would say even 2035, a lot of these companies are still not going to get there because they have the wrong mindset.
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  27. Our reading

    Nuclear's costs are largely fake -- an industry that has not built anything in forty years charging for what it can no longer do.

    Their wordsUm everywhere in nuclear is like this. There are uh totally fake costs from an industry that is just totally anemic and doesn't know how to build anything anymore.
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  29. Our reading

    Nuclear plants should be financed with venture equity rather than project finance, because what is left is technology-execution risk and American venture capital is the best in the world at underwriting that.

    Their wordsAnd the type of risk that we are asking investors to take is um, we know the physics works. We know that there's infinite demand and how we go from here to there is technology execution. And guess what? Venture capital in the United States is the best at underwriting tech risk of anywhere in the world.
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  31. Our reading

    Fission will make energy a thousand times cheaper than it is today; the only open question is whether that takes decades or centuries.

    Their wordsI know that nuclear fision will make energy a thousand times cheaper than it is today. somebody will do that and it's really up to us as a team whether or not that's going to be in the future decades or the future centuries
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  33. Our reading

    Every jump in the human standard of living has been unlocked by cheaper energy.

    Their wordsEnergy is the fundamental input to uh the quality of human life. U if you look backward into time and say how did humanity go from one standard of living to the next, it's always unlocked by cheaper energy, right?
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  35. Our reading

    Once AI and robotics do the manufacturing, the price of any object becomes the price of the energy used to make it.

    Their wordsIf you keep asking this question, what you realize is energy is the fundamental input. When we figure out AI and robotics that allows us to do semi-aututonomous manufacturing, energy will become the cost of all things, right? The cost of buying a thing will become the cost of energy used to make it.
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