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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: 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…”
Taylor: US excels at modular manufacturing over large-scale construction
“We don't do as well at like very large scale manufacturing or very large scale construction. We're much better at modular manufacturing.”
Valar Atomics aims to build thousands of domestic modular reactors
“So that's really what we focus on is building a modular reactor that can be manufactured here and that we build thousands of throughout the United States.”
Taylor: China is commercializing US nuclear reactor designs from the 1970s and 1980s
“They're also turning on innovative types of reactors that were invented in the United States in the seventies and eighties. And they sort of sat on the shelf and we never really tackled them. We ran into a bunch of regulatory roadblocks and then we never turne…”
Taylor: Nuclear is the best climate solution, outperforming solar and wind
“Nuclear is so obviously, so clearly the best climate solution that you could find, right? So if you care about the fact that we're putting more CO two in the, you know, in the atmosphere every single year, and you look at all the options, you know, options tha…”
Taylor: Nuclear Is a Derivative Bet on AI Growth
“Nuclear is sort of like the derivative to AI. If you believe that AI is going to go vertical, you should probably invest in nuclear, you know, because A, you're going to power it. B, you're going to be very insulated from, you know, the deflationary effects of…”
Taylor: Nuclear Industry Has Failed to Mass-Manufacture Reactors in Series
“Nuclear in the last 40 to 50 years has been sort of a one-off industry. You have a plant built here, a plant built there. There were a couple of models and units of reactors built in duplicates around the world. But nobody has really been able to manufacture l…”
Taylor: Valar Testing Prototype in LA, Targets Criticality Next Year
“We have our first, what's called a non-nuclear reactor prototype in LA. We're doing temperature testing on it, pressure testing on it, and we're looking at criticality next year”
Taylor: US nuclear energy has been paused since Three Mile Island
“Nuclear in the United States has been paused for about 46 years. It's been paused essentially since Three Mile Island.”
Taylor: Manufacturing will shift from labor-heavy to energy-heavy over 100 years
“If you think about what's happening over the next hundred years in manufacturing and reindustrialization, we're essentially taking what was an extremely labor heavy industry into being an energy heavy industry, right?”
Taylor: Generation IV Nuclear Reactors Cannot Melt Down
“Generation four reactors incredibly passively safe. You basically can't make them melt down this. It's, you know, a pure physics issue. So that's the type of reactor that we build.”
Taylor: Valar Atomics will seek DOE authorization to split atom next year
“We're going for DOE authorization next year and split the first atom.”