Valar Atomics just raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation, led by Sequoia. 3 years old. Nuclear has spent 50 years…
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Valar Atomics just raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation, led by Sequoia. 3 years old. Nuclear has spent 50 years getting more complicated — custom components, novel engineering, one-off builds that take a decade and never repeat. Valar went the opposite way. Simplest possible reactor, off-the-shelf parts wherever possible, built like manufactured hardware instead of a civil engineering project. Here’s the number that matters. Their first core took 2 years. The second went critical in 7…
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