Manufacturing 1,000s of Nuclear Reactors | Isaiah Taylor, Valar Atomics

<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps:</p><p>0:32 Manufacturing nuclear reactors is a SpaceX style problem</p><p>2:58 Scaling from 1 reactor to 10</p><p>4:31 Why it’s so tempting to iterate on paper instead of actually building reactors</p><p>7:37 Having contact with reality - modular shielding</p><p>10:09 Steel is cheaper than software engineers</p><p>11:09 Why the idiot index is so high in nuclear</p><p>16:02 Becoming a nuclear company</p><p>18:57 It&#39;s important not to lie to yourself</p><p>21:55 Obsessing over critical path </p><p>24:54 Nuclear reactors are relatively simple</p><p>30:35 Safety is a function of iteration speed</p><p>30:55 Why Valar had to vertically integrate</p><p>35:01 Designing a Toyota Camry vs a Ferrari </p><p>38:07 Running through 1-way doors</p><p>41:13 Pulling rabbits out of a hat</p><p>46:13 Wartime mode</p><p>48:49 Being willing to do unreasonable things</p><p>51:20 How Elon injects urgency into his companies</p><p>56:56 Relentlessly chasing the goal of making energy 10x cheaper</p><p>58:32 What’s changed over the last 3yrs</p><p>1:00:51 Designing safe nuclear reactors</p><p>1:13:05 Learning from SpaceX - optimizing for scale</p><p>1:18:07 Having a high tolerance for looking dumb</p><p>1:19:50 How Palmer Luckey handles hit pieces</p><p>1:20:55 Inevitable time</p><p>1:25:26 Predicting unknown bottlenecks</p><p>1:28:08 Scaling</p><p>1:29:45 July 4th will be a rebirth for nuclear in the United States</p>