A criticality achievement for a brand new reactor is NOT the same as a university experiment.
Doing it right means exercising supply chains, QA systems, licensing organizations, manufacturing infrastructure, control systems, operator training programs and a host of other ingredients that enable building a complete reactor that can achieve a self sustaining chain reaction with real fuel in a real configuration.
Congratulations, @Aalo for your achievements in joining
@AntaresNuclear @valaratomics and
@DeployableE. The four of you have proven that America can be an overachiever when it taps its sources of strength.
Disc: Nucleation Capital is an investor in
@AaloAtomics but we support progress for all advanced nuclear energy ventures.
Criticality has validated Aalo's supply chain, reactor physics, control systems, and fuel-loading procedures at full scale.
Our path forward runs through power operations, manufacturing scale-up, and delivering commercial electricity.
Aalo is expanding our factory space by 10x in the near-term to apply assembly-line manufacturing to reactor production.
This will open the door to mass-producing the Aalo Pod, our power plant for data centers built from 10 MWe modules, configured from 50 MW up to 200 MW.
Additionally, we are sharing for the first time that Aalo-X—our first full-power power plant—has completed site groundwork and will power an on-site data center in 2027.
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