How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor
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How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor

July 2, 20261 hr 1 min

While the rest of the nuclear industry still relies on simulations and paper designs, Valar Atomics is busy splitting atoms. In fact, they just powered an NVIDIA Blackwell chip directly with a live nuclear reactor in order to power the world’s first nuclear powered website. Sarah Guo joins Valar Atomics founder and CEO Isaiah Taylor on-site at their reactor site in Utah to talk about how Valar is shifting nuclear energy from the theoretical to the practical by building and perfecting reactors via hardware iteration. Isaiah discusses why the US stopped building nuclear reactors in the 1970s, and ho...

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