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Isaiah Taylor

Co-founder of Valor Atomics, advocating for nuclear fission and modular reactors as key solutions for sustainable energy. Motivated by family history in nuclear energy and envisions a future with abundant energy impacting daily life.

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Jun 2, 2025 • 1h 8min

How Nuclear Solves the Energy Problem | Valar Atomics' Isaiah Taylor

Isaiah Taylor, co-founder of Valor Atomics and a passionate advocate for nuclear fission, shares his vision for sustainable energy. He discusses how overcoming energy constraints can ignite creativity and innovation. Isaiah reflects on his journey from a high school dropout to a nuclear innovator, emphasizing the importance of nuclear power as an efficient and compact energy source. He imagines a future where abundant energy facilitates entrepreneurship and even space exploration, inspiring optimism for transformative change in daily life.
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Apr 23, 2025 • 58min

The new Manhattan Projects: 50x cheaper energy, the race to space, and bitcoin

Isaiah Taylor, founder of Valor Atomics, aims to revolutionize energy with modular giga-sites for cleaner and cheaper production. He shares insights from his family's ties to the Manhattan Project and discusses why innovative nuclear solutions stalled in the West. The conversation dives into the potential of robotics and AI in energy, the need for regulatory reforms, and how decentralization can boost national resilience. Taylor also explores Bitcoin's role in a changing economy and advocates for real-world engineering over software-centric approaches.
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Dec 8, 2023 • 52min

The Valor of Valar Atomics

Isaiah Taylor, founder of Valar Atomics, talks about his new venture to turn nuclear energy on its head. He discusses his Christian faith, Midwestern roots, and how he plans to follow in Elon Musk's path. They explore Oak Ridge National Laboratory, growing up in the city vs countryside, unlocking abundant energy resources, and the significance of mass manufacturing in the nuclear industry. They also discuss the overlap of their energy vision with Christian tradition and the revitalization of American culture.
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Feb 29, 2024 • 44min

#1319 Isaiah Taylor | Nuclear Power Can Save The World

Founder & CEO of Valar Atomics discusses mass-manufacturing nuclear reactors, Base aims to bring a billion people onchain with Ethereum L2, Pomp's daily letter to investors, Isaiah Taylor explores nuclear energy's potential in reshaping the industry, challenges and risks of nuclear power, importance of vertical integration in manufacturing, societal optimism in energy advancements
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Dec 8, 2023 • 52min

#78 — Isaiah Taylor — Nuclear Fission, Energy Abundance, and The Frontier

Isaiah Taylor, founder of Valar Atomics, discusses nuclear fission for energy abundance. This podcast explores the broken system of energy, the lack of ambition in society, energy as the foundation for progress, designing the aesthetic of the future, and the moral imperative of building the future we want to live in.

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