Our Future: We'll Crank Out Nuclear Reactors Like Automobiles, Made in USA

Posts in today's report:

• World's First Small Modular Reactor Factory Opens in Austin
• Cool Agricultural Automation in Action
• How to Handle Chinese Competition, China Moves Auto Production to Mexico
• Growing Recognition of the Effectiveness of Trump's Tariff Policies from Unexpected Quarters
• How Wall Street Looted Healthcare
• California Water and Infrastructure Report for September 26‎

World's First Small Modular Reactor Factory Opens in Austin

Aalo Atomics is building the world's first Small Modular Reactor (SMR) assembly line in Austin, TX. Their first reactor is scaled up from a microreactor now being installed at the Idaho National Laboratory. The first Aalo reactor type will be rated at 10 MWe and will be transportable on a semi truck. The second reactor type will be slightly larger in size, but deliver 100 MWe. Both designs will use uranium zirconium hydride fuel, the reactivity of which goes down as temperature goes up, so that the chain reaction can never get out of control, no matter the temperature. The SMRs will be cooled by liquid metal sodium, thereby, eliminating any need for scarce water in the plants and enabling a 10x improvement in energy transfer over water-cooled systems (smaller footprint). These plants will operate singly or in fleets to meet many types of electrical demand situations. Watch the Part 2 video first (Part 1 has imperfect audio). The new Trump administration will be pushing this forward.

Aalo prepares for US licensing of microreactor

Aalo Atomics has submitted a pre-application regulatory engagement plan with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its Aalo-1 microreactor, detailing the planned pre-licensing application interactions with the regulator.;

World Nuclear News