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Two world-first unveilings today: 1. The Aalo Atomics full-scale reactor prototype 2. The factory that builds it Both equally groundbreaking. Both equally important. Factory-built 10 MWe fission reactors, purpose-built for data centers. To power the next era of intelligence.

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Fifty Years1 year ago

@AaloAtomics The factory is the product.

Seth Bannon1 year ago

@AaloAtomics Correct

Range ETFs1 year ago

The nuclear renaissance is here! Enabling the transition to low-carbon energy, $NUKZ focuses on companies revolutionizing the nuclear industry, from reactor design to fuel management. Consider taking part in the renaissance.

Matt Loszak1 year ago

@AaloAtomics @fiftyyears is the best. Thank you for believing in us early Seth & team! Onwards…

Seth Bannon1 year ago

@AaloAtomics @fiftyyears Such a pleasure to be able to support you!

Chris Taylor1 year ago

@AaloAtomics LOL ~ @valaratomics had some curtain issue with their unveiling too! It's one thing to drop a reactor, it's a completely different thing to drop curtains. 🤣

Seth Bannon1 year ago

@AaloAtomics @valaratomics Rigging is no joke!

Julian Shapiro1 year ago

@AaloAtomics aalo is INCREDIBLE

Seth Bannon1 year ago

@AaloAtomics True, true

Everest Brady 🏔️1 year ago

@AaloAtomics This is beautiful Seth, thank you for sharing. Glad you got to go! My family is a very small investor in Aalo and very glad to see this

Seth Bannon1 year ago

@AaloAtomics Wonderful company

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Scouting our GigaWatt Factory 1 GW/yr. 100 reactors a year. Per factory. One of these walls will hold one of the largest commercial nuclear reactor factories America has ever built. cc: Aalo Atomics , Matt Loszak

Scouting our GigaWatt Factory 1 GW/yr. 100 reactors a year. Per factory. One of these walls will hold one of the largest commercial nuclear reactor factories America has ever built. cc: Aalo Atomics , Matt Loszak

Yasir Arafat

26,651 views • 2 months ago

Join me and Aalo Atomics Atomics CEO Matt Loszak at their Critical Test Reactor at Idaho National Lab — the first new reactor built there in 50 years! Aalo is racing toward criticality by July 4, 2026, America’s 250th birthday. This isn’t random. It directly answers President Trump’s Executive Order 14301, which launched the DOE Reactor Pilot Program and set the goal of at least three advanced test reactors reaching criticality by Independence Day. Aalo’s sodium-cooled Aalo-X design (built for AI data centers) is proving that with bold policy and American ingenuity, we can move nuclear from paperwork to power at startup speed.

Join me and Aalo Atomics Atomics CEO Matt Loszak at their Critical Test Reactor at Idaho National Lab — the first new reactor built there in 50 years! Aalo is racing toward criticality by July 4, 2026, America’s 250th birthday. This isn’t random. It directly answers President Trump’s Executive Order 14301, which launched the DOE Reactor Pilot Program and set the goal of at least three advanced test reactors reaching criticality by Independence Day. Aalo’s sodium-cooled Aalo-X design (built for AI data centers) is proving that with bold policy and American ingenuity, we can move nuclear from paperwork to power at startup speed.

Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎

27,143 views • 22 days ago

Infant US startup has split the atom. Including Aalo, US just achieved 4 adv reactor criticalities. Just months after their sodium test loop, Aalo (yes, light in Bengali) reached first criticality with its zero-power X reactor, validating core systems; full-power ops of the 10 MWe sodium-cooled microreactor next year. Contrast is clear: India is pursuing state-led, large-scale reactors for long-term energy security, while the US/West has a laser focus—create early dependency by capturing the near term commercial demand. Likes of DOE Reactor Pilot Programs are ensuring private firms master repeatable reactor design, mfg, fuel, Ops, including building nuclear hardware & supply chain. The goal: rapidly deploy factory-built 10 MWe microreactors for near-term demand, especially data centres. IND already confirmed 🇺🇸Holtec as its key SMR partner.

Infant US startup has split the atom. Including Aalo, US just achieved 4 adv reactor criticalities. Just months after their sodium test loop, Aalo (yes, light in Bengali) reached first criticality with its zero-power X reactor, validating core systems; full-power ops of the 10 MWe sodium-cooled microreactor next year. Contrast is clear: India is pursuing state-led, large-scale reactors for long-term energy security, while the US/West has a laser focus—create early dependency by capturing the near term commercial demand. Likes of DOE Reactor Pilot Programs are ensuring private firms master repeatable reactor design, mfg, fuel, Ops, including building nuclear hardware & supply chain. The goal: rapidly deploy factory-built 10 MWe microreactors for near-term demand, especially data centres. IND already confirmed 🇺🇸Holtec as its key SMR partner.

Roy

17,917 views • 18 days ago

Here's a first look inside our Critical Test Reactor Facility, housing Aalo's first nuclear reactor. The CTR is a milestone in developing Aalo-X, our demonstration nuclear power plant purpose-built to power AI data centers. Take a tour with our CTO Yasir Arafat and learn how the facility works.

Here's a first look inside our Critical Test Reactor Facility, housing Aalo's first nuclear reactor. The CTR is a milestone in developing Aalo-X, our demonstration nuclear power plant purpose-built to power AI data centers. Take a tour with our CTO Yasir Arafat and learn how the facility works.

Aalo Atomics

12,627 views • 2 months ago

As AI drives unprecedented demand for electricity, nuclear startup Aalo Atomics is rethinking how reactors are built. The company is developing factory-manufactured reactors designed to deploy faster and scale more efficiently than traditional nuclear plants. Co-founder Yasir Arafat explains how speed in one of the world’s most regulated industries comes down to mastering the fundamentals, working with regulators, and iterating relentlessly.

As AI drives unprecedented demand for electricity, nuclear startup Aalo Atomics is rethinking how reactors are built. The company is developing factory-manufactured reactors designed to deploy faster and scale more efficiently than traditional nuclear plants. Co-founder Yasir Arafat explains how speed in one of the world’s most regulated industries comes down to mastering the fundamentals, working with regulators, and iterating relentlessly.

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27,214 views • 2 months ago

Aalo Atomics CEO Matt Loszak on the best day of his life — splitting his first atom on America's 250th birthday. "We're mass manufacturing nuclear power plants purpose-built for powering AI data centers. We got started less than three years ago. We've raised $300 million and scaled from 2 to 200 people." "As of this past Friday, we achieved criticality on our first full-scale reactor at 12:20 AM on the 4th of July." "Definitely the best day of my life. Possibly the most stressful day of my life. We cut it close because the president made these executive orders a year prior, commanding at least three reactors to achieve criticality by July 4th of this year. We narrowly made it." "I've built things in my life out of wood, out of metal, out of cardboard when I was a kid, but I've never split an atom. Something we built in our factory was literally splitting atoms next door. It was such a cool, awesome day."

Aalo Atomics CEO Matt Loszak on the best day of his life — splitting his first atom on America's 250th birthday. "We're mass manufacturing nuclear power plants purpose-built for powering AI data centers. We got started less than three years ago. We've raised $300 million and scaled from 2 to 200 people." "As of this past Friday, we achieved criticality on our first full-scale reactor at 12:20 AM on the 4th of July." "Definitely the best day of my life. Possibly the most stressful day of my life. We cut it close because the president made these executive orders a year prior, commanding at least three reactors to achieve criticality by July 4th of this year. We narrowly made it." "I've built things in my life out of wood, out of metal, out of cardboard when I was a kid, but I've never split an atom. Something we built in our factory was literally splitting atoms next door. It was such a cool, awesome day."

MTS

14,290 views • 14 days ago

At 12:20am on July 4th in the Idaho desert, I watched dozens of engineers hold their breath. Then the neutron counters confirmed it: self-sustaining chain reaction. The Aalo Atomics reactor was critical! Everyone erupted. Cheers, hugs, and a few tears. Three years ago this company was an idea on a whiteboard. We backed them then. This weekend they took a full-scale core critical – the first new sodium-cooled reactor in America in over four decades. Built in under 8 months from groundbreaking. The federal deadline for criticality was July 4th. They made it 20 minutes in. Criticality means the chain reaction is self-sustaining. Every fission triggers exactly one more, no external neutron source needed. It happens at near-zero power. It proves that the core geometry, the fuel, and the control systems all behave exactly as modeled. What makes this one different: the core Aalo took critical is already sized for 30 MW thermal / 10 MW electric once coolant and power conversion are added. That's roughly an order of magnitude larger than the other startup reactors that recently went critical. And this design IS the product: five reactors around one turbine, a 50 MW factory-built pod purpose-designed for AI data centers. No major redesign needed. From here: power ascension to 30 MW thermal, endurance runs, turbine sync, then powering a co-located data center in 2027. In 1951, this same desert made the first electricity from atomic energy. Enough for four lightbulbs. 74 years later, the lightbulbs are GPUs. Second atomic age. Same desert. So grateful I got to see it!

At 12:20am on July 4th in the Idaho desert, I watched dozens of engineers hold their breath. Then the neutron counters confirmed it: self-sustaining chain reaction. The Aalo Atomics reactor was critical! Everyone erupted. Cheers, hugs, and a few tears. Three years ago this company was an idea on a whiteboard. We backed them then. This weekend they took a full-scale core critical – the first new sodium-cooled reactor in America in over four decades. Built in under 8 months from groundbreaking. The federal deadline for criticality was July 4th. They made it 20 minutes in. Criticality means the chain reaction is self-sustaining. Every fission triggers exactly one more, no external neutron source needed. It happens at near-zero power. It proves that the core geometry, the fuel, and the control systems all behave exactly as modeled. What makes this one different: the core Aalo took critical is already sized for 30 MW thermal / 10 MW electric once coolant and power conversion are added. That's roughly an order of magnitude larger than the other startup reactors that recently went critical. And this design IS the product: five reactors around one turbine, a 50 MW factory-built pod purpose-designed for AI data centers. No major redesign needed. From here: power ascension to 30 MW thermal, endurance runs, turbine sync, then powering a co-located data center in 2027. In 1951, this same desert made the first electricity from atomic energy. Enough for four lightbulbs. 74 years later, the lightbulbs are GPUs. Second atomic age. Same desert. So grateful I got to see it!

Seth Bannon

41,253 views • 19 days ago

We’ve gone critical. At 12:20 am on July 4th, Aalo sustained a controlled fission chain reaction for the first time. We have officially surpassed the goal of President Trump’s Executive Order 14301, achieving 4 advanced nuclear reactor criticalities by America’s 250th birthday. This is a zero-power criticality to validate our supply chain, reactor physics and control systems for our 10 MWe full-powered reactor, the Aalo-X, targeting power operations next year. Everything was built at full scale: fuel, moderator, control systems, etc., so we understand system performance at its commercial scope. That also meant tackling four of the most difficult things in nuclear with this criticality milestone: ✅ Ground-up construction of our reactor facility ✅ Manufacturing the reactor in our factory and shipping them by road ✅ Assembling our own fuel assemblies using commercial UO2 ✅ Standing up training, safety, and operational programs to become our own nuclear operator I am proud to say we have accomplished all four goals, along with achieving criticality. The reactor building was constructed in 36 days and construction to criticality was achieved in under 8 months. That’s the fastest nuclear build in the last 80 years. A massive congratulations to the Aalo Atomics team and our partners. Many thanks to Idaho National Laboratory, the DOE-Idaho Operations Office, and the Office of Nuclear Energy for their immense support in enabling this milestone and dedicated to the American nuclear resurgence.

We’ve gone critical. At 12:20 am on July 4th, Aalo sustained a controlled fission chain reaction for the first time. We have officially surpassed the goal of President Trump’s Executive Order 14301, achieving 4 advanced nuclear reactor criticalities by America’s 250th birthday. This is a zero-power criticality to validate our supply chain, reactor physics and control systems for our 10 MWe full-powered reactor, the Aalo-X, targeting power operations next year. Everything was built at full scale: fuel, moderator, control systems, etc., so we understand system performance at its commercial scope. That also meant tackling four of the most difficult things in nuclear with this criticality milestone: ✅ Ground-up construction of our reactor facility ✅ Manufacturing the reactor in our factory and shipping them by road ✅ Assembling our own fuel assemblies using commercial UO2 ✅ Standing up training, safety, and operational programs to become our own nuclear operator I am proud to say we have accomplished all four goals, along with achieving criticality. The reactor building was constructed in 36 days and construction to criticality was achieved in under 8 months. That’s the fastest nuclear build in the last 80 years. A massive congratulations to the Aalo Atomics team and our partners. Many thanks to Idaho National Laboratory, the DOE-Idaho Operations Office, and the Office of Nuclear Energy for their immense support in enabling this milestone and dedicated to the American nuclear resurgence.

Yasir Arafat

99,083 views • 19 days ago

🚨🇺🇸 THAT’S NOT A TRACTOR, IT’S A 50MW NUCLEAR REACTOR BUILT FOR AI Looks like farm gear, except it’s not. This is a 50 megawatt electric nuclear reactor built start to finish in just two weeks. Purpose-built to feed AI data centers. No concrete dome. No giant facility, it is just one vault holding the whole reactor. Compact. Fast. Powerful. Every part is made in a South Austin factory. Final snap-together happens on-site. This is the new atomic age. And it's already online. Source: Eric M Henrikson

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On episode 74 of S3, we visit Valar Atomics, the first startup in history to generate nuclear power, all while beating the July 4th deadline. In just 3 years, Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors went from pitching the idea on an Apple note to the reactor generating electricity, and now NVIDIA is betting on that same reactor to power its next AI data center.

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They did it! Aalo Atomics is a remarkable company and team that has rocketed from just starting as a company about 2 1/2 years ago here in Austin with the goal of changing the energy world to proving their new Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor can safely go critical and demonstrate sustained and controlled nuclear fission! And, they did it in the 4th of July! What a way to celebrate! I was fortunate to be there and see the team working at their best! Watch this company closely … I am sure you will hear a lot more about them in the months and years to come! Congrats!

They did it! Aalo Atomics is a remarkable company and team that has rocketed from just starting as a company about 2 1/2 years ago here in Austin with the goal of changing the energy world to proving their new Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor can safely go critical and demonstrate sustained and controlled nuclear fission! And, they did it in the 4th of July! What a way to celebrate! I was fortunate to be there and see the team working at their best! Watch this company closely … I am sure you will hear a lot more about them in the months and years to come! Congrats!

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