Isaiah Taylor
Founder and CEO, Valar Atomics. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Isaiah Taylor is the founder and CEO of Valar Atomics, an energy startup developing modular high-temperature gas reactors. He focuses on building standardized nuclear fission hardware to supply clean power for AI data centers and heavy industry.
2shows
2appearances
47statements
10resolved
7supported
1contradicted
70%fully supported
2said about them ↓ Everything Isaiah Taylor said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Taylor: Nuclear is a fake industry charging 100x margins
“Everywhere you look, it's a fake industry that has not been building anything for 40 years, and the little bit that they have been building, they're charging a 100 X margin on.”
Taylor: Valar Atomics will turn on a new reactor every few minutes
“And we will get it down to minutes. This company will get, we'll get to the point where we have a new reactor turning on every few minutes.”
Valar Is the Only Private Company to Ever Produce Nuclear Power
“This is the fifth new nuclear device to make power in the United States since the year 2000. Fowler is the only private company founded since the discovery of nuclear fission that has ever made nuclear power.”
Taylor: Valar Atomics could be worth $500B in 10 years
“And, you know, we're sitting here right now, you know, less than three years from the founding of the company, and I think if you look back at 10 years in 10 years from now, and, you know, Valor's worth five hundred billion, something like that you will be abl…”
Taylor: Nuclear Fission Will Make Energy 1,000 Times Cheaper
“I know that nuclear fission will make energy a thousand times cheaper than it is today. Somebody will do that.”
Taylor: Russia funded German environmental groups to shut down nuclear reactors
“This was sort of a theory for a long time, but it's actually proven now that this did happen in Europe over the last 10 years. So Russian groups funded far left environmental groups in Germany to shut the reactors down in order, you know, to make it so that Ge…”
Taylor: Valar Atomics Will Scale Fission to Make Energy 10x Cheaper
“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 and make energy 10 times cheaper for humanity.”
Taylor: Rebooting Nuclear Requires Shifting from Civil Infrastructure to Advanced Manufacturing
“If you're going to reboot nuclear and you're actually believe in, in the atomic energy century, which I absolutely do, it's probably not going to look like what it did in the sixties. It's not going to look like civil infrastructure. Because we're not that goo…”
Taylor: Manufactured SMRs Require Development Driven by Hardware Iteration
“What 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 …”
Taylor: Most Nuclear Startups Are Just Modeling and Simulation Companies
“So if you look at the nuclear industry outside of Valor, it's mostly a modeling and simulation 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 th…”
Taylor: Valar aims to build hundreds of thousands of nuclear reactors
“We want to make thousands of reactors, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.”
Taylor: Valar will shut off all power and pumps after reactor scram
“Immediately after we scram, we're actually going to turn off the entire electrical supply to the plant. We're going to turn off the circulator. We're going to turn off the RCCS pump. Every safety system in this plant, we're going to shut off, and we're going t…”
Taylor: Nuclear energy causes fewer deaths per unit of power than solar
“Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy, empirically. If you look at the amount of power generated versus the amount of deaths it's even safer than solar, which is very strange, because how does someone die from solar? But actually, most solar is installed…”
Taylor: TRISO helium-cooled reactor geometry is humanity's safest reactor design
“A triso-fueled, graphite-moderated, helium-cooled reactor of the geometry that we've built it here is just about as safe as humanity knows how to build a nuclear reactor.”
Valar Built a $5M Nuclear Reactor Component In-House For $400K
“And we were quoted about five million dollars and we were told it would take about two and a half years to build. And so we said, well, all right, maybe I'd be willing to pay five million dollars, but I'm certainly not going to wait two and a half years. And s…”
Taylor: Valar Atomics will reach fifth reactor while competitors seek debt financing
“We are willing to go build reactors on equity balance sheet because that's going to allow us to prove it years ahead of anybody else, right? Where, where our competitors are still trying to convince, you know fundamentally risk averse you know, financers to fi…”
Taylor: AI and robotics will make energy the sole cost of goods
“When we figure out AI and robotics that allows us to do semi-autonomous 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.”
Taylor: China Does Not Want Valar's IP Because Its Technology Is Ahead
“There's a certain extent to which China doesn't actually want my IP because they have something better already running in the mainland.”
Taylor: Nuclear and Heavy Construction Are Insulated from AGI Disruption
“I actually think that if you're looking for an investment that is protected from AGI, it's something like this, where it's extremely physical. You're bending steel, you're stacking blocks, you're building plants, you're laying concrete. It's going to be a long…”
Valar Built and Turned On Reactor Under DOE Authority via EO 14301
“So the reactor that's behind us here was turned on under an executive order. It was EO one four three oh one, which called for three advanced reactors to go critical on American soil by July fourth. And we built it under department of energy authority under th…”
Taylor: Minimizing accident consequence beats trying to engineer away low odds
“The 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 are stochastic, right? Even if you do an enormous amount of risk reduction on odds and you do all t…”
Taylor: Valar Atomics' safety basis proves zero radiation dose during total failure
“Our safety basis when we go to the regulator is everything in the plant has failed. Absolutely everything, right? ... In fact, it is safe. Right? So we have regulatory limits where we say, okay, in an accident scenario, you can't dose the public with radiation…”
Taylor: Nuclear energy requires mass-producing simple reactors like Toyota Camrys
“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. And actually that is going to make the …”
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| SOURCERYLEDGER | Founder and CEO, Valar Atomics | 1 | 16 | 67% 2/3 | full record on Sourcery → |