Kevin Dunlap

Before Valor Atomics builds nuclear reactors in a community, @isaiah_p_taylor says the team meets with local residents first to explain the costs and benefits and hear their feedback. "Valar has really taken community engagement an order of magnitude more seriously than any other nuclear company so far." "When we come into a community, we don't come in after the project and say, 'Here's how you get to know us because we're in your backyard now.' We actually go to the community first and explain the cost benefits and ask people, 'What do you think?' We try to get people to engage with it before we go and actually do something." "We host events, we host barbecues, and people are really excited to have us here. If you look at the surveys on nuclear versus data centers, interestingly, people are cool with the data center as long as you build a nuclear power plant first."