Man of God. Husband. Father. 🇺🇸. Building reactors. @valaratomics
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If you’re curious what it’s like to fly on a C-17 with a @valaratomics reactor…
this is how comfortable the ride is amongst the clouds.
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Today, I'm excited to welcome Andy Lambert to Valar Atomics as Chief Production Officer.
Andy has led an extraordinary career in manufacturing. As VP of Production at SpaceX, Andy took Falcon 9 from a fledgling single-use rocket to the world's most reliable launch vehicle and first orbital-class self-landing system, while also industrializing Falcon Heavy production and leading quality for America's primary human-rated spacecraft, Crew Dragon.
Those who know me best know my particular style of hiring executives; that is, not hiring them until I've found the best in the world. It has taken me three years to find somebody that I feel is capable of executing on our mission to turn nuclear energy from a construction industry to one based on vertically integrated mass-manufacturing and rapid deployment.
If you prick Valar Atomics in any place, you will find that we bleed scale. Every decision in our architecture has been meticulously and ruthlessly honed for building not tens of reactors, but thousands.
Nuclear reactors are simple machines, but real scaled production is very hard. I wanted to find somebody who has lived through production hell of a novel system where the safety of human life hangs in the balance.
Andy started his career working on the Harrier for the Royal Air Force, then moved into production at BMW. At SpaceX, Andy was responsible for the production of Falcon 9 and the quality of Crew Dragon, two of humanity's most challenging and safety-sensitive products. After SpaceX, Andy built complex and novel energy systems at Heliogen, then ran production at the innovative and vertically integrated hypercar company Czinger.
This mix of novel environments, unprecedented pace, deep vertical integration, and life-safety quality is exactly what Valar Atomics needs to bring humanity into the atomic age and make energy cheaper than ever before.
But more than all of that, I found Andy and his wife Carrie to be incredibly kind and genuine people who are incapable of resting on their laurels. They are hungry to help build the future. My reference checks on Andy were all consistent: he fights hard to win, but he does so in a way that brings everyone along.
If you've worked with Andy in the past, or have worked in organizations that have been fortunate enough to have him at the helm, this is your chance to see him in peak form. The mission of Valar Atomics is to make energy cheaper and more abundant in the universe than ever before. We are doing this by becoming the first company in history to build thousands of nuclear fission reactors. This will require the absolute best people in the United States working harder than they've ever worked before. But our mission is worth your efforts. Join us!
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Time to go make energy cheaper and more abundant in the universe than ever before!
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Good morning we are going to win
Immediately after @SECWAR State of the Force speech, Project Meridian held its inaugural meeting with @elonmusk @newtgingrich and @PalmerLuckey.
And today, the full board met at the Pentagon for the second meeting.
Kip Mock is an absolute patriot and a brother. Valar Atomics would not be where it is today without him. Watch what this man of God does.
I’m closing out my time at Valar Atomics to start something new.
In the last few years, I’ve had the incredible honor of helping to build one of the most important companies of the 21st century - from Isaiah’s inception of a new way to approach the nuclear industry to a running advanced power reactor in <36 months.
In early 2024, I conceived a novel model for a public-private partnership with the Philippines. Over the following months, negotiated and closed the contract. I spent the following year setting up the partnership and building a world class team in Manila.
Following President Trump’s executive orders on nuclear in May of 2025, I moved my family back to the US and built Valar’s site at San Rafael from dirt to a complete reactor building & essential infrastructure in 6 months. Watching the team turn on the reactor on our site has been a blast!
Over the last few years, I have had the privilege of meeting and working with some of the most talented people in the world, and have learned decades of lessons. May God continue to bless the work of the team at Valar Atomics, and stay tuned for what’s next.
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I’m closing out my time at Valar Atomics to start something new.
In the last few years, I’ve had the incredible honor of helping to build one of the most important companies of the 21st century - from Isaiah’s inception of a new way to approach the nuclear industry to a running advanced power reactor in <36 months.
In early 2024, I conceived a novel model for a public-private partnership with the Philippines. Over the following months, negotiated and closed the contract. I spent the following year setting up the partnership and building a world class team in Manila.
Following President Trump’s executive orders on nuclear in May of 2025, I moved my family back to the US and built Valar’s site at San Rafael from dirt to a complete reactor building & essential infrastructure in 6 months. Watching the team turn on the reactor on our site has been a blast!
Over the last few years, I have had the privilege of meeting and working with some of the most talented people in the world, and have learned decades of lessons. May God continue to bless the work of the team at Valar Atomics, and stay tuned for what’s next.
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This @PirateWires story is how the nuclear work inside government actually got done.
Ryan talked to many of the people who made it happen.
Credit belongs to the career teams at DOE, INL, DoW, and NRC who pulled it off. I was lucky to help.
America can still do hard things. 🇺🇸
Last May, President Trump signed 4 Executive Orders: kicking off a race to turn on 3 nuclear reactors by July 4th.
I talked to the people who made it happen: including @SecretaryWright, @emundz42, @adamblake, @OverReactor1776, and Rian Bahran.
Exclusively, how the Trump administration laid the groundwork for an American nuclear renaissance.
9/11 reminds us of the existence of evil men who will blindly kill us all for a lie. Yet, we must Never Forget that there are good men who will run clear-eyed toward certain death in the faith that one life can be spared.
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Narrative violation: According to the Economist, AI has created 1 million new jobs in the U.S.
Our analysis suggests that AI has so far created around 1m new jobs in America. We explain how the technology has created a hiring boom economist.com/finance-and-ec…
Hey @grok, what is that watermark in the bottom right hand corner? Do these people or this lab exist?
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The American People are the Greatest People.
America is the Greatest Place of All Places.
The American Nation is the Greatest Nation.
Real ones understand this.
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For context, we delivered enough water for about 150 American households annual consumption
In 3 hours
With 2 drones
We will save the Colorado River
When you discover that raw milk makes nuclear reactors go brrrrrr
It’s true. Can confirm.
"We're building the biggest energy company on Earth."
Valar Atomics CEO Isaiah Taylor discusses the startup's $1 billion funding round, its plan to scale nuclear power and why he believes nuclear is critical to winning the AI race bloom.bg/3TALJOO
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Valar Atomics has raised $1.2B to build the world’s first vertically integrated nuclear company.
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Valar Atomics CEO Isaiah Taylor: "Over the last 30 years, we became more interested in Powerpoint than in power plants, and it's your leadership that is changing that." 🔥
.@POTUS: "Last year, I signed 4 historic executive orders to reignite a wave of progress in America’s nuclear power production and promote this abundant, affordable, unlimited supply of energy for the American people. As part of this effort, I directed @SecretaryWright to establish a pilot program for advanced reactors and to see at least 3 cutting-edge reactors started up safely by the 4th of July... most believed the goal is impossible, but I’m delighted to say that FOUR companies succeeded in meeting that deadline."