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What Isaiah Taylor thinks about design

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

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7 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Isaiah Taylor has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingAmerica 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.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 2nd of 18 in this recording

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  3. Our readingMost 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.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 4th of 18 in this recording

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  5. Our readingNuclear 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.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 8th of 18 in this recording

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  7. Our readingThe 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?

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 9th of 18 in this recording

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  9. Our readingThe 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?

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 11th of 18 in this recording

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  11. Our readingNuclear'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.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 14th of 18 in this recording

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  13. Our readingNuclear 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.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 15th of 18 in this recording

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