Julian Shapiro

Aalo has received DSA approval from DOE for our 10 MW reactor, zero-power criticality! This is the equivalent of an NRC license in DOE space. We've been working towards this milestone at Aalo for 2.5 years. This was a very ambitious project under the DOE reactor pilot program for a bunch of reasons: ➡️ 10 MW, commercial-scale system. This is a system with the full-scale amount of fuel, moderator, controls, etc, necessary for powering AI data centers. Proving out this supply chain is a big deal. In the coming weeks we'll be taking it to zero power criticality, and then going to full-power operation in the months that follow. We'll be getting the factory set up in parallel to mass-produce it. ➡️ Built everything ourselves, from scratch. We started with a green field, and within 4 months finished the building, facilities, policies & procedures, reactor, shielding, instrumentation, control, etc. People thought this would be impossible to do on this timeline for a reactor of this size, but we've done it. Hyperscalers care about speed, and we're showing that moving fast is possible at commercial scale. ➡️ Achieving criticality before July 4th. We set out to ensure we met the president's order, and we are on pace to do so. We only started hiring at Aalo 2.5 yrs ago. It was questionable how realistic it was to take on all of the above while being one of the younger nuclear companies, but we are on track to pull it off. Insanely proud of the team for all the hard work, nights and weekends that went into this. Full blog post will be linked in comments.

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