Valar Atomics Founder on Powering NVIDIA Chips Directly with Nuclear Reactors
No Priors · rss · 2026-08-14
The No Priors podcast features Isaiah Taylor, founder of Valar Atomics, discussing how nuclear energy can meet the massive power demands of AI.
- Theory to Practice: Valar is building and perfecting reactors via hardware iteration rather than relying on simulations. They recently powered an NVIDIA Blackwell chip directly with a live nuclear reactor to run the world's first nuclear-powered website.
- Policy & History: Taylor explains why US nuclear development stalled in the 1970s and how Valar utilized a little-known DoE pathway, revived by a Trump administration executive order, to develop their advanced reactor.
- Business & Future: The conversation covers Valar's vertical integration strategy, venture-backed financing, gigasite plans, and Taylor's conviction that cheap, abundant atomic energy will vastly improve human life.
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