Isaiah Taylor is the Founder of Valar Atomics. Valar just became the first startup in history to power an NVIDIA Blackwell with a nuclear reactor.
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Manufacturing nuclear reactors is a SpaceX style problem
Scaling from 1 reactor to 10
Why it’s so tempting to iterate on paper instead of actually building reactors
Having contact with reality - modular shielding
Steel is cheaper than software engineers
Why the idiot index is so high in nuclear
Becoming a nuclear company
It's important not to lie to yourself
Obsessing over critical path
Nuclear reactors are relatively simple
Safety is a function of iteration speed
Why Valar had to vertically integrate
Designing a Toyota Camry vs a Ferrari
Running through 1-way doors
Pulling rabbits out of a hat
Wartime mode
Being willing to do unreasonable things
How Elon injects urgency into his companies
Relentlessly chasing the goal of making energy 10x cheaper
What’s changed over the last 3yrs
Designing safe nuclear reactors
Learning from SpaceX - optimizing for scale
Having a high tolerance for looking dumb
How Palmer Luckey handles hit pieces
Inevitable time
Predicting unknown bottlenecks
Scaling
July 4th will be a rebirth for nuclear in the United States
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