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Valar Atomics comes out of stealth with $19M and a pilot reactor site


Companies developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) have raised more than $1.5 billion in the past year, as tech companies hunger for power to

By effectively creating a production line of SMRs, Valar hopes to drastically reduce the costs associated with building nuclear reactors, which are traditionally bespoke projects. Taylor, whose grandfather was, coincidentally, a nuclear physicist on the Manhattan Project, dropped out of high school at 16, and went on to study software systems as well as found startups. He has interviewed Tony Blair, Dmitry Medvedev, Kevin Spacey, Lily Cole, Pavel Durov, Jimmy Wales, and many other tech leaders and celebrities.

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