Google, Kairos Power, and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced on August 18 a new collaboration to help meet America's growing energy demand and bolster the country's leadership in advanced nuclear energy.
Kairos Power has successfully installed the reactor vessel for its third Engineering Test Unit (ETU 3.0) at the company's campus in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Kairos Power has begun the first installation of nuclear safety-related concrete for the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor, marking the start of "nuclear construction" on the project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today made conditional commitments to provide high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) to five U.S. nuclear developers to meet their near-term fuel needs. This first round of HALEU allocations brings innovative American nuclear technologies one step closer to commercialization and will expand the use of nuclear energy to deliver more secure, affordable, and reliable energy to the American people.