Valar Built a Nuclear Safety System 12x Cheaper
Valar built a nuclear reactor protection system for $400K vs $5M vendor quote in far less time.
“we're going to have to build our own RPS. And we spent about $400,000 on it.”
Valar built a custom nuclear reactor protection system (RPS) for $400K after being quoted $5M and 2.5 years by a vendor. The system uses a triple-redundant voting architecture to determine plant safety state. While impressive engineering, this is a hardware/nuclear story with limited direct AI signal for an AI conference newsletter.