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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.”
Isaiah Taylor Aug 15, 2026 ▶ 26:45 How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
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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…”
Isaiah Taylor Aug 15, 2026 ▶ 10:18 How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
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Taylor: Valar powered an NVIDIA Blackwell chip directly with a nuclear reactor
“We powered the first ever AI chip powered by a nuclear reactor. So we took an NVIDIA Blackwell super grateful to them for providing the system to us. And we connected it directly to our nuclear reactor.”
Isaiah Taylor Aug 15, 2026 ▶ 35:05 How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
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Taylor: Valar airlifted entire modular control room from California to Utah
“We literally picked this up, put it on an airplane and fluid here. So the entirety of the plant, including a controller and fluid with us”
Isaiah Taylor Aug 15, 2026 ▶ 11:16 How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
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Taylor: Valar Atomics split first atom 28 months after founding
“So our first ever mark from filing in Delaware to first atom split was two years and four months. From Project Nova, first atom split to the second time here in this reactor was about seven months.”
Isaiah Taylor Aug 15, 2026 ▶ 25:32 How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
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