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Founder Hails Nuclear Stunt as Bold Tactic to Fund Hard Tech

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hats off to @isaiah_p_taylor for doing some seriously ballsy (near-extinct) old fashioned inventor demonstration via impressive stunt.

there are relatively few viable methods to fund hard tech for a young entrepreneur, and as @isaiah_p_taylor and @elonmusk exemplify, engineering to impressive stunts to steadily builed up confidence in financial and operational partners is one of the best

Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors@isaiah_p_taylor

Ward 250 is shut down and the NVIDIA chip hosting http://nuclearwebsite.com is now running off of whatever residual energy is left in the UPS it’s plugged in to. It’ll shut off at some point in the next few hours—until next time we fire up!

Fission is so awesome. It’s like magic

1:17 PM · Jul 3, 2026 · 1.6K Views

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Many users praised the founder's risky live nuclear reactor simulation for the NVIDIA Blackwell chip as bold and exciting, while a few replied with aggressive insults.

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Danielle Fong 🔆@DanielleFong

i visited a http://nuclearwebsite.com and it exploded. that's ok tho. it was just in simulation.

the real reactor is fine!

Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors@isaiah_p_taylor

Fission is so awesome. It’s like magic

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Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors@isaiah_p_taylor

Thank you. There was real risk that it wouldn’t work live. There were concerns with how the chip would fare being run around with, risk of dropping, risk of boot up taking longer or headless mode failing, etc etc…

When we actually did it, it took around 10s longer than we expected for the headless server to boot up; it came to like 3 seconds before I clicked the refresh button on stage 😂 control room was freaking out the whole time thinking something failed

We will continue to operate live and transparently. At some point a live demo we do will fail, and that will be ok too. We decided at the very beginning that nuclear was going to have to be a transparent industry in order to make the worlds energy

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Danielle Fong 🔆@DanielleFong

hats off to @isaiah_p_taylor for doing some seriously ballsy (near-extinct) old fashioned inventor demonstration via impressive stunt.

there are relatively few viable methods to fund hard tech for a young entrepreneur, and as @isaiah_p_taylor and @elonmusk exemplify, engineering to impressive stunts to steadily build up confidence in financial and operational partners is one of the best

Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors@isaiah_p_taylor

Fission is so awesome. It’s like magic

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Charlotte W. Nazarian@CWNazarian

@OmarJPimentel @isaiah_p_taylor @DanielleFong @elonmusk i actually showed isaiah these texts live as gabriel was running to the control room

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Omar Pimentel@OmarJPimentel

@isaiah_p_taylor @DanielleFong @elonmusk I even texted @CWNazarian as everything was going on thinking something might actually be wrong… or brilliant😂

Hats off. that was spectacular.

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Z +@Ruben_PachecoPT

@DanielleFong @FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup precisais de UMA PASSAGEM? @SpaceForceCSO

PARA A PUTA QUE VOS PARIU? @NASA ? @Space_Station ?

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Danielle Fong 🔆@DanielleFong

@isaiah_p_taylor @elonmusk

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Z +@Ruben_PachecoPT

@DanielleFong @FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup @SpaceForceCSO @NASA @Space_Station Looks like.. nasa burning my brain at 3003° celsius.. in mission"" @Space_Station @SpaceForceCSO @nasa

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Hira@Hiraweb3

@DanielleFong simulation meltdown kind of rules

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S ∆ J I B.eth🍌@Sajib_999

@DanielleFong I'm glad to hear everything's okay.

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Omar Pimentel@OmarJPimentel

@CWNazarian @isaiah_p_taylor @DanielleFong @elonmusk Amazing lol I was legitimately like this the whole time👇🏼

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