Kairos uses non-nuclear test units to screen out unreliable reactor suppliers
Mike Laufer · Shortening the nuclear development cycle from decades to years · Sep 24, 2025 · at 14:50
Kairos Power CEO Mike Laufer describes how the company evaluated its supply chain using non-nuclear Engineering Test Units before commissioning its Hermes reactor.
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“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 chance of delivering what we needed for Hermes. So we're actually able to screen out a lot of potential vendors”
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