Four startups each raced a DOE July 4 deadline; the last, an Aalo Atomics sodium-cooled unit, went critical at Idaho National Lab. Concrete evidence the microreactor timeline is compressing.
Four microreactors reached first criticality in the United States in five weeks, each built by a different startup racing a July 4 deadline from DOE's reactor pilot program. The last one, a sodium-cooled unit from @AaloAtomics at Idaho National Laboratory, went critical at 00:20
Four startups each raced a DOE July 4 deadline; the last, an Aalo Atomics sodium-cooled unit, went critical at Idaho National Lab. Concrete evidence the microreactor timeline is compressing.
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