“A California-based company [General Matter] with ties to …Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.“ Thiel sits on the board and invests via Founders Fund. 7/25/25 … 1/
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2/ “General Matter is led by former SpaceX employee Scott Nolan, a partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund [founded by Peter Thiel].”
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4/ “After more than a year searching for companies that could produce enriched uranium…, Scott Nolan, a partner at…Founders Fund, decided to build his own. His new startup, General Matter, has raised $50M in a funding round led by the firm to make high-assay low-enriched uranium…”
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5/ The “Business of Nuclear Summit” was “hosted by Alumni Ventures, 8VC [founded by Palantir co-founder Lonsdale], Founders Fund [founded by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel], & Idaho National Laboratory *** Takeaway: Speed isn’t foreign, it’s just underutilized…Let urgency drive execution.” 3/26/25
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6/ Thread. bsky.app
A new Trump program “will fast-track construction of new & untested reactor designs built by private firms, with an explicit goal of having at least 3 nuclear test reactors up & running by…July 4.” Critics worry that the tight deadline & “lack of transparency” are “compromising safety.” 12/17/25…1/
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7/ Valar’s investors include Snowpoint Ventures, which I emphasize because ... bsky.app
🤔 In 2021, Kip Mock of Moscow ID accidentally set his pal, Elijah Froh, on fire by pouring diesel on a fire. Mock & Froh were later were hired by Valar Atomics—founded by their pal, Isaiah Taylor, a high school dropout from Moscow, ID who somehow landed a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor. 1/
8/ …Snowpoint Ventures is helmed by Palantir’s former head of global defense. bsky.app
7/ “The new [Valar Atomics] funding round is being led by Snowpoint Ventures, the VC firm helmed by Palantir’s former head of global defense, Doug Philippone. Day One Ventures, Dream Ventures, … & others also participated in the deal…” (Palantir, of course, was co-founded by Peter Thiel.)
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😳 Isaiah Taylor of Valar Atomics—which somehow scored a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor by July 4—claimed that “a person cld hold the spent nuclear fuel from [Valar’s] reactor in their hand & get the same amount of radiation as one would expect from a hospital CT scan.” About that… 1/
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Valar Atomics (founded by Isaiah Taylor) is one of the companies building a nuclear reactor for this project with a July 4 deadline. Valar is backed by Day One Ventures, which was founded by Masha Bucher (Drokova), a Russian-born investor living in the US who represented Jeffrey Epstein. 1/
11/ A very enlightening read: “The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again” 11/1/25 nuclear-news.net
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May 23, 2025 - U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the nation's independent nuclear regulatory commission to cut down on regulations and fast-track new licenses for reactors and power plants, seeking to shrink a multi-year process down to 18 months. reuters.com
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