so how long can your us customers wait for a delivery

so we're delivering um first commercial pilot units in 28 and 29 um roughly yeah up to about 80 megawatts of power and then by early 2030s we uh we want to have one gigawatt of manufacturing capacity and we have um you mentioned a 10 billion dollar backlog it's actually 140 billion dollar backlog now of customers and so it would be in the order of Right now, if you wanted to get in line, it'd be in 2030 because of the customers we have already in line.

But we're looking to increase capacity.

But from a commercial perspective, yeah, it'd be – Early 2030s would be the first units that get delivered, and it's about six months from order to delivery once we get the production facility up and running.

Just before I let you go, Bobby, how did a Brisbane boy get into this high tech industry?

I had a phenomenal career in the military and that put me through engineering school.

And then, like many Australians, I had a great expat career in East Asia, building very large ships and projects in the shipyards in Korea and Japan and China and Singapore.

And then I had the opportunity to go to America to build... to build a company that Mark Wahlberg made a movie about the problem.

so how long can your us customers wait for a delivery

so we're delivering um first commercial pilot units in 28 and 29 um roughly yeah up to about 80 megawatts of power And then by early 2030s, we want to have one gigawatt of manufacturing capacity.

And we have, you mentioned a $10 billion backlog.

It's actually a $140 billion backlog now of customers.

And so...

It would be in the order of right now, if you wanted to get in line, it'd be in 2030 because of the customers we have already in line.

But we're looking to increase capacity.

Just before I let you go, Bobby, how did a Brisbane boy get into this high tech industry?

Is it, you know, mining sites, on the grid, data centers? What are the applications for your nuclear reactor technology?

Sure.

So, so we've had three big public announcements over the last month or so, um, that, that really form the key verticals that we're, we're looking to, to head into.

So, um, the first one is, um, in the, uh, reindustrialization, the revitalization, and the reshoring of American industry, um, with grid markets.

One of the key constraints is that the grid can't keep up with the demand of, of all these industries that wanna come back, um, to the US, and they're typically between 1 and 15 megawatt factories.

And so, um, they're too small for the grid to care about, and they're too big to get an instant connection.

And so what a, a technology like Deployable Energy can do, the Unity nuclear battery, is that you can, you can build private grids behind the meta grids to power these factories without having to wait for, you know, four to 10 years to get a grid connection.

What would be the use case for a country like Australia, and are you interested in us as a partner?

How has that shaped your upbringing? What was your upbringing like?

Yeah, so I grew up in the beautiful, like, southeast Queensland, you know, surfing, playing rugby, playing cricket.

But my mother's from southern Thailand, like right on the, you know, right on the border with Malaysia.

Right, yeah.

She told us stories of her brothers getting killed.

There was an insurgency.

They were Buddhists and the insurgency was Islamic.

What is it like working at Deployable every day?

How has that shaped your upbringing? What was your upbringing like?

Yeah, so I grew up in the beautiful, like, southeast Queensland, you know, surfing, playing rugby, playing cricket.

But my mother's from southern Thailand, like right on the, you know, right on the border with Malaysia.

Right, yeah.

She told us stories of her brothers getting killed.

There was an insurgency.

They were Buddhists and the insurgency was Islamic.

What is it like working at Deployable every day?

again we thank you for all that you've done so your home it's your daughter I think you said second birthday and let me say respectfully your better half says hey let's see if we can do something different I say that respectively respectively Bobby how did how did you land on energy give me your background obviously involving engineering but how did you how'd you end up here

It was a bit of a long road.

It first started off by working in the shipyards in East Asia.

I was working for a company called Diamond Offshore Drilling.

They were the second largest offshore driller in the world at the time.

And they were building rigs in some of the largest shipyards in the world in South Korea.

And so that was my first taste of the energy space.

Can you explain to my listeners what you're doing?

How did you land on energy? Give me your background, obviously involving engineering, but how did you end up here?

It was a bit of a long road.

It first started off by working in the shipyards in East Asia.

I was working for a company called Diamond Offshore Drilling.

They were the second largest offshore driller in the world at the time.

And they were building rigs in some of the largest shipyards in the world in South Korea.

And so that was my first taste of the energy space and I ended up working all around the world supporting that industry and then I had an opportunity to go to America and sort of live the American startup dream and I built a startup.

Can you explain to my listeners what you're doing?

See, that was two months ago, man.

It's two months ago.

Yeah, it's amazing how much stuff's been done.

But yeah, that program, yeah.

409 days from when the president announced the executive order to get three reactors or at least three reactors by the 4th of July.

We didn't even get in until day 250th, like January 26th this year.

uh, we got accepted into the, into the, uh, into the program or into the new program for the nuclear energy launch pad.

our own

I'd love to share a little bit.

Capital and talent normally aggregates in certain areas.

So if I said Detroit, you know, that means automotive.

If I say like Taiwan, you know, that's chips.

If I say the Valley or Silicon Valley, you know, that's software.

That's because that's where capitals, you know, there's been the most capital has been generated in those industries.

It normally goes in a very tight geographic area.

It takes money, right? And it takes the right team.

Uh, how big would a graphite moderated version of your reactor have to be?

I think what you're alluding to between light water and carbon is the moderating power effect, um, between the two materials.

And that, and moderating power is one of the most important metrics for microreactor design.

And so, so what does this mean? Um, to give a short answer on, on, on how the size would change, uh, our core being light water moderated would be, is approximately a couple of feet across and a, and a couple of feet long.

If it were to be graphite moderated, to maintain the same spectrum or similar spectrum, it would need to be eight feet across and eight feet long.

Uh, that has huge implications, and I, I can break this down a little bit more, and, uh, I might use some historical analogies just to, to give you a feel.

Um, yeah, the AGR, the advanced gas-cooled reactors, yeah, developed by the UK, the graphite to UO2 volume ratio within that core was about 50 to 1.

Can you tell us about that journey?