Nano Nuclear Energy (NNE) President on Kronos Reactor Voucher, AI & Space Hopes

Yeah, this is a very critical milestone here because it's thousands of pages of technical work, thousands of hours, engagement with the US regulatory bodies. And it's essentially one of those milestones that, you know, you go from a paper reactor to now a real life reactor, essentially. So, you know, we've conditioned this for a 12-month review, meaning that in a year we could be potentially pouring concrete and steel. Right? So that is now Nano Nuclear Kronos MMR coming to life. And that's why it's really important.

I think, you know, there's a historic, I would say, data points for high-temperature reactors. And that's what our Kronos Micro Modular Reactor is, is a high-temperature reactor. And now you complement that with TRISO fuel, which has been funded by the Department of Energy to the tune of billions of dollars. So you kind of merge the new generation of fuel technology with now historic data points with high-temperature reactors. So you kind of combine this and you have something that the NRC, or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is comfortable with. This is not novel stuff that they've never seen before. So I think our approach has been to simplify this, to make sure that it's off-the-shelf components to an extent. And also, you know, we're able to actually build this right and mass-produce this in a modular fashion. We believe our Kronos MMR is the biggest you could build a reactor while keeping it modular, in terms of microreactor. So we're very pleased with the results so far.

Yeah, it shows that public and private relationship there. And it's, you know, many hours by the university and months and years to educate the public, to educate the campus, right? Like let's visualize this. You have dorm rooms that are going to be across the street from our reactor. So that shows you the safety profile of this reactor, that the actual nuclear engineering department and experts feel comfortable, that the safety measures are met, that there will be dorm rooms right across the street. So this is a huge moment also, because we'll be able to showcase a full-scale Kronos MMR to the world. And what that means is, you know, showcasing that to our commercial partners across the globe.