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Advanced Atomic Technologies | ANS Winter 2018

Kairos – Developing advanced nuclear energy in Alameda
ByRod Adams November 13, 2018November 28, 2024

…tion with the ANS Winter meeting, Ed Blandford, Chief Technical Officer of Kairos, mentioned that Kairos pebbles are smaller than the typical 6 cm pebbles chosen for most pebble-bed conceptual reactors. Smaller pebbles have the advantage of higher surface to volume ratios for enhanced heat transfer. He indicates this logical choice wouldn’t be as easy for gas cooled reactors. When I asked him why gas-cooled designs would be challenged with smaller…

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Advanced Atomic Technologies | Molten salt cooled | Pebble Bed Reactors | The Atomic Show Podcast

Atomic Show #288 – Per Peterson, CNO, Kairos Power
ByRod Adams January 25, 2021February 24, 2025

…est Unit now in construction in Albuquerque Image provided by Kairos Power Kairos Power Is developing a truly new nuclear fission power technology. Their KP-FHR (Kairos Power – Fluoride Salt Cooled, High Temperature Reactor) combines the solid fuel form usually associated with gas-cooled reactors with the fluoride molten salt often associated with fluid-fuel reactors. For Atomic Show #288, my guest was Dr. Per Peterson, Kairos Power’s chief nuclea…

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Advanced Atomic Technologies | Hybrid | Innovation

Kairos Power Is Hiring For Hybrid Natural Gas-Nuclear Power System
ByRod Adams February 17, 2017July 3, 2020

…y is seeking to fill, Dr. Peterson said that the best available summary of Kairos’s current situation is available on its LinkedIn page. Kairos deserves to have the space and patience needed to develop its technology, licensing and commercialization plans. Its current goal is to build a demonstration prototype by about 2030. Following testing and refinement, Kairos expects to be ready to enter the commercial power market in the late 2030s. Though…

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Advanced Atomic Technologies | ANS Winter 2022 | NRC | Nuclear regulations

Is nuclear reactor licensing process being improved as Congress mandated with NEIMA?
ByRod Adams November 18, 2022November 21, 2022

…d their interactions with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Drew Peebles, Kairos Power Kairos Power is well into the process of obtaining a construction permit – the first step of a Part 50 license application – to build its Hermes 35 MWth non-power reactor at a site near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. When Kairos submitted its CPA (construction permit application) for Hermes in Sep 2021, it was the first non-LWR reactor CPA ever submitted to…

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ANS Winter 2022

Confidently building foundations for successful nuclear energy growth
ByRod Adams November 15, 2022January 12, 2023

…esentation was so interesting and so detailed that I am hoping to make it a focus for another post and/or an Atomic Show podcast. Per Peterson and Ed Blankford of Kairos have been welcomed guests for past interviews. Per provided a Kairos update in January 2021….

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Advanced Atomic Technologies | Atomic Entrepreneurs | Business of atomic energy | The Atomic Show Podcast

Atomic Show #275 – Managing advanced nuclear development during pandemic
ByRod Adams May 12, 2020March 14, 2025

…tening for anyone who wonders how the advanced nuclear industry is doing under difficult business conditions. Here is a list of the discussion participants and the companies they represent. Caroline Cochran, co-founder and COO of Oklo Inc. Per Peterson, co-founder and Chief Nuclear Officer at Kairos Power Carl Perez, CEO at Elysium Industries Canon Bryan, Chief Financial Officer, Terrestrial Energy Lars Jorgenson, CEO, ThorCon Mark Mitchell, Presi…

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Advanced Atomic Technologies

Press Release: Advanced Reactors Technical Summit IV & Technology Trailblazers Showcase
ByRod Adams January 24, 2017August 12, 2025

…E-Hitachi Nuclear Energy; General Atomics; Hybrid Power Technologies, LLC; Kairos Power, LLC; Muons, Inc.; Next Generation Nuclear Plant Industry Alliance; NuScale Power; Southern Nuclear Operating Company; Terrestrial Energy; ThorCon Power; Westinghouse Electric Company; and X-energy. U.S. NRC Chairman Stephen Burns headlines the keynoters, which also include U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Shane Johnson; Gateway for Accelerated Innovat…

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Advanced Atomic Technologies | AR Summit 2023 | Business of atomic energy | Conferences | New Nuclear | Smaller reactors

Observations from the US Nuclear Industry Council’s 10th annual Advanced Reactor Summit
ByRod Adams July 10, 2023February 17, 2025

…already owns as potential hosts for a multi-unit SMR-160 power stations. Kairos has grown rapidly and was recently notified that the NRC has approved the final safety evaluation of its construction permit application (CPA) to build Hermes, a 30 MWth test reactor, in Oak Ridge, TN. Terrestrial Energy has completed stage 2 of the Canadian Nuclear Society Vendor Design Review process. Oklo had a painful learning experience but is steadily progres…

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ANS UWC 2023

Sense of purpose at the 2023 ANS Utility Working Conference
ByRod Adams August 12, 2023August 12, 2023

…services for the existing fleet, the only vendor I remember talking to was Kairos Power, which will begin construction on their Hermes test reactor sometime in 2024. My guess is that they were there to engage with potential suppliers. One of the highlights of the exhibition for me was a face-to-face meeting with Brad Fox and Jerold Vincent, the founders of Nuclearn, an emerging AI company with several products that have demonstrated significant va…

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Advanced Atomic Technologies | Atomic education | Innovation | Liquid Fuel Reactors | Smaller reactors | The Atomic Show Podcast

Atomic Show #321 – Andrew Harmon, VP Natura Resources
ByRod Adams September 27, 2024November 28, 2024

…1974. Aside: The first advanced reactor construction permit was issued to Kairos for its Hermes in December 2023. End Aside Natura Resources is the technology supplier for the important new facility. Andrew Harmon, Natura Resources Vice President of Operations and Business Development visited the Atomic Show to fill in some of the backstory about the project origins, the decision to pursue a research reactor as a step towards their ultimate goal…

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Advanced Atomic Technologies | Atomic Entrepreneurs | Liquid Metal Cooled Reactors | New Nuclear | The Atomic Show Podcast

Atomic Show #328 – Matt Loszak, CEO Aalo
ByRod Adams March 14, 2025March 27, 2025

…is one of four reactor vendors (along with Terrestrial Energy, Natura and Kairos) selected to build a small and micro reactor hub on the Rellis Campus of Texas A&M. Eventually, the site owners envision that the total power generating capacity at the site will be approximately 1 GWe from a significant number of nuclear power plants. You can learn more details about Aalo Atomics and Matt Loszak by listening to the show. As always, comments are welc…

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Adams Engines | Advanced Atomic Technologies | Business of atomic energy | Economics | Gas Cooled Reactors | Graphite Moderated Reactors | Pebble Bed Reactors | Smaller reactors

Turning nuclear into a fuel dominated business
ByRod Adams October 28, 2018June 23, 2025

…let temperature when they want to go To higher power operations. Actually, Kairos has decided to abandon this concept — at least for the first reactors that they intend to build. They probably will want to revisit it later, if they get the chance, but their effort to bring a reactor to market will skip this hybrid power system as too much risk and go with something more straightforward. Engineer-Poet What Kairos might want to do is come up with a…

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