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Isaiah Taylor Has a Factory Answer to the Nuclear Question
He learned to code, opened an auto shop, and spent years preparing to build a reactor company. Now Valar Atomics has a working demonstration and a far larger question: can a nuclear plant become something a factory makes again?
Zabrina Johal Has Spent a Career Inside the Atom. Now She Has to Bring It Outside.
From a Montana childhood to an aircraft-carrier reactor room, Johal learned that power is never an abstraction. At Zap Energy, her task is to turn that lesson into an unusual business: fission for the near term, fusion for what comes next.
Jordan Bramble
Jordan Bramble is the co-founder and CEO of Antares Nuclear (Antares Industries), a Torrance, California company building factory-produced, transportable fission microreactors of up to 1 MW for defense, remote industrial, and space applications. A systems engineer and physicist who did a stint in federal policy at the White House Office of Management and Budget, Bramble started Antares in 2023 on a contrarian bet: instead of chasing the commercial grid on price, sell nuclear's unique capability to customers who need power where the grid and diesel can't reach. Under his leadership Antares raised more than $130 million, built out a 145,000-square-foot factory, and in June 2026 became the first private company to bring an advanced reactor - its Mark-0 - to criticality under the U.S. Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program. His stated ambition is to make energy abundant 'from Earth to the Asteroid Belt.'