Updates
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June 12, 2024
License to Build: Progress on Hermes and the ETU Series
This winter, Kairos Power marked three notable milestones in the space of two months: Receiving a construction permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to build the Hermes demonstration reactor, logging over 1,000 hours of pumped salt operations in our first Engineering Test Unit (ETU 1.0), and finalizing our contract with the U.S. Department of Energy for up to $303 million in risk reduction funding through the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.
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November 16, 2023
The Largest Flibe Test in the World
The Kairos Power team closed out a productive summer, achieving major licensing milestones for the Hermes demonstration reactor and putting the Engineering Test Unit through its paces with the commencement of Flibe operations. Read on for the latest. Molten Salt Operations Get Underway The Engineering Test Unit (ETU) has officially become the largest Flibe system in the world! In October, the team at KP Southwest, Kairos Power’s testing and manufacturing facility in Albuquerque, N. M., began the…
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April 06, 2023
Building the Infrastructure for Rapid Iterative Development
The Kairos Power team welcomed 2023 with a busy start, building new infrastructure and partnerships to enable our clean energy mission. Here’s the latest on what we’ve been up to. Breaking New Ground in Albuquerque The Engineering Test Unit (ETU) at Kairos Power’s testing and manufacturing facility in New Mexico continues to generate important lessons learned. ETU 1.0 is a first-of-its-kind, non-nuclear hardware iteration that demonstrates the integration of principal KP-FHR systems,…
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December 15, 2022
Design, Build, Test, Repeat
The Kairos Power team has made significant progress since you last heard from us over the summer. We heated up the Engineering Test Unit, passed another licensing milestone for Hermes, and made new investments in infrastructure to support our vertical integration strategy. Read on for the latest. Rapid Iterations in Action at KP Southwest BREAKING NEWS – Kairos Power has finalized construction and is in the process of hot commissioning its first non-nuclear iteration, the Engineering Testi…
