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Bernauer: Microreactors can be factory-built at 50 units per year
“You can make a one megawatt reactor that is factory constructed, 50 units a year, so a reactor every week coming off the line, and then you can transport that by land, sea, or air to any place in the world.”
Bernauer began researching nuclear power while designing SpaceX Mars systems
“But I also worked on Hyperloop and on the boring company, kind of ideas that came from that while I was there and on Mars systems, which is how I started to look at nuclear.”
Radiant microreactor contains 120 million poppy seed-sized ceramic fuel kernels
“What we're doing is these tiny poppy seed size kernels of fuel. There are about a hundred and twenty million of them. For a hundred kilograms of uranium and this is all in a core that's, you know, only four feet in diameter.”
Radiant will publicly release nuclear-grade graphite test results to qualify suppliers
“So we are testing nuclear grade graphite right now. We actually will make the results of that available to everyone. So it will just qualify a U S domestic American made nuclear grade graphite supplier to a higher degree”
Radiant has raised about $60 million from a16z and USV
“And then we raised a series A with Union Square Ventures in 20, 22. And then a little over a year ago, we did a series B with Andreessen and raised a forty-five million dollar round. So when you add all that up, we've raised about sixty million in total ventur…”