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DeWahl: Antares is not using DARPA because micro-reactors lack fundamental technical novelty
“We are not working with DARPA mostly because it's actually not as technically risky as you might even think, like even. ... Like we actually, in a funny way, like it's not even really a tech problem. ... You know, I mean, it's hard to build these things, but i…”
DeWahl: Antares pays national labs hundreds of thousands to prep testing
“You know, we spend a lot of money paying the national labs to do things like clear out a pit so that we can test our reactor, and it's like, we're paying for that, and they're like, you know, here's hundreds of thousand dollars, here's the bill.”
DeWahl: NRC regulatory headwinds are overestimated today
“I think it's an overestimated headwind, certainly today. I think if you go back five years ago, 10 years ago, for sure, I mean, they hadn't licensed anything in decades.”
DeWahl: Antares will pursue DOD licensing before approaching the NRC
“The Army is now also able to license its own reactors alongside the Navy, which already does. So that will absolutely be our first stop. The NRC really only license sorry, regulates civilian electricity, so civilian power. So we actually don't need to even go …”
DeWahl: No one is processing nuclear-grade graphite in the US
“The graphite that I brought here is actually from a Japanese company, right? No one's even processing that stuff in the U.S.”
Antares targets 2026 criticality test and 2027 demonstration reactor unit
“So next year, our criticality test is kind of the first milestone. By end of 2027, we want to have our first demonstration unit demonstrated.”
DeWahl: Antares is participating in the DOE's new test reactor program
“And so actually, Antares is part of this new test reactor program, which allows the DOE alongside usually like Idaho National Lab to be sort of your regulator as you're testing your first reactors, so that you don't have to spend all this time up front with th…”
DeWahl: Antares Did Not Seek Foreign Regulatory Jurisdictions
“You know, we really didn't. It felt like there was enough signal that we would be able to, you know, get through regulatory, right, and see some positive change. There was enough to basically demand signal within the US, and it's, I don't know, we take pride i…”
DeWahl: Antares is building sub-megawatt nuclear micro-reactors
“The really small ones are the micro-reactors, and we're actually one of the smallest of those, so we're even sub one megawatt, we're kind of in the hundreds of kilowatt scale, you can think of that as like hundreds of houses worth of electricity.”