Kairos Power

“We built the engineering test unit over the course of three years, and built and operated over three years, and that whole life cycle of experience, it's the world's largest FLIBE system. It will be the largest FLIBE system until we load SALT into the second e…”

“We see the ability in, in just those first essentially seven reactors, like dramatically bringing down the capital costs you know, 40, 50% is possible, and then we're staged for the second half of the twenty-thirties to scale from there”

“If a supplier could deliver for what we needed for ETU, maybe they could deliver what we need for Hermes. We'd have to test that, or future reactors. But if they couldn't deliver what we needed for the non-nuclear system, there was no way they'd have any chanc…”

“The Tennessee Valley Authority, Google, and California-based Kairos Power announced a collaboration today. TVA will eventually buy nuclear power from that plant in Oak Ridge, which will then supply up to 50 megawatts of energy to TVA's power grid. That grid po…”

“That little particle basically provides, like, all of the functionality of the big concrete structures in the light water reactors that are, you know, the major source of nuclear power today.”

“Now people are finally catching on and say if you build the non-nuclear version of it, you can go much faster, you can learn, you get the information, so others are kind of following along and kind of copying that model, but at the time it was really novel to …”

“When we look at the 500 megawatt total capacity for Google we're looking at kind of the 50 megawatts, ah, on the Hermes II side, and then we're looking at basically six more reactors to deliver at 75 megawatts each as kind of an evolution of that that initial …”

“The opportunity around precast concrete, which is really just, like, potentially completely transformational in terms of how we build these buildings. Totally conventional and a lot of non-nuclear construction, but how do you do this for the nuclear requiremen…”

“So fast forward, we got a construction permit from the Aggregatory Commission. First advanced reactor, you know, to submit and get, we did it in just over two years.”

“The fact that we had the machining capabilities on site allowed us to process nearly all the blocks with minor modifications to adapt to the as, basically, as-built geometry.”

“When you have the overhead or the investment in the manufacturing capabilities, if you just wait for that operation experience, even at smaller timescales, you have a lot of people just sitting around not really doing anything. So, for us, Basically just have …”

“The fact that the melting temperature for the salt is, you know, in like the 400, like we don't actually can't get the salt hot enough to like stress the fuel in the way that, that you could theoretically stress from other actors. So we don't have any scenario…”

“We have a really exciting announcement that we just had with TVA and Google that, that kind of puts together a novel commercial arrangement around this new evolution of the plant itself, and so it really is kind of a novel structure that allows all three parti…”

“In the nuclear space in particular, because there's so few build opportunities, there are a lot of people who just have experience in a very narrow band of that development cycle for the technology. And when you just do that one step, like, 20 times, you're mi…”

“Albuquerque is really more around larger scale testing and manufacturing. And across the board for reactor systems, fuel and salt, and all that infrastructure. But what we're building there is mobile. The skids can be shipped. So, you know, future builds are n…”

“If you buy into the iterative process, you don't know what you're going to learn, and so you have to be able to take that information, which sounds simple, but engineers and people, nuclear engineers in particular, like to have everything, like, mapped out, li…”

“If this was The reactor, and the vessel was out of tolerance, you would have a, it could be fatal to the project, depending on what you're looking at, or at least would be a huge delay, because you wouldn't have to just replace the vessel, you'd have to do roo…”

“The main challenge with new nuclear is really the cost. It's a two-fold problem. It's not just high cost, it's high cost uncertainty, and we're in a particularly kind of perilous moment where people are recognizing the value of the fixed, reliable, base low po…”