Dear Rational Optimist,
Nuclear startups are in a high-stakes sprint to be the first to flip the switch on a next-gen reactor and launch a new atomic golden age.
As Valar Atomics founder and CEO Isaiah Taylor puts it: “The only way that genuinely hard technologies have ever come into the world is through building them.”
I recently caught up with Isaiah to discuss how his team plans to win this race and bring abundant atomic energy to market.
In our interview you’ll hear:
Why cheap energy = cheap food
Will nuclear energy push down oil prices?
Why regulations are settled in practice, not theory
A generational divide for nuclear acceptance
Valar’s three crucial safety design choices
Please click here to watch my conversation with Isaiah Taylor now.
A transcript of our conversation is available here.
—Stephen McBride
Stephen McBride is a co-founder of the Rational Optimist Society.
