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Washington-state-based advanced nuclear company backed by Bill Gates, developer of the Natrium reactor and the announcing party for the August 14 Korean agreements.
The company plans to announce its first data centre plant this year, with ground broken in 2027. The design point is that heat storage decouples reactor output from plant output.
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A Department of Energy design approval and two boreholes outside Parsons, Kansas, begin the test, but the cost line this design is meant to delete has never been quantified in public, and the demonstration is targeted for 2027.
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The only small modular reactor design the NRC has ever certified now says the binding constraint is paperwork. The remedy it has bought is a nuclear-trained retrieval tool measured once, in a proof of concept, at 80% faster.
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HiddenLayer says it will contribute to Prometheus, the Idaho-led federal effort to put AI into reactor work. The Phase II selection belongs to the consortium, and still depends on appropriations.
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The August 14 deal names an EPC contractor and adds financing guarantees for up to eight 345MW reactors. Those are the items that decide whether a demo plant becomes a fleet.
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