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Isaiah Taylor

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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  1. 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

  3. 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.

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    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