Critical technology development in the US is riding high, but that doesn’t come without challenges. Selling to the government is no easy feat. Tommy Hendrix founded Decisive Point in 2018 to help solve that problem by making strategic investments into defense, energy, and infrastructure startups building critical tech. The firm helps startups navigate regulatory pathways […]
Authored by Justin Lee Porter, Jonathan Camello, Jon O’Connell, and Sam Edwards Just a few years ago, launching a nuclear energy start-up in the United States was an exercise plagued with uncertainty. Regulatory timelines were opaque, licensing costs were burdensome, and securing venture funding was challenging based primarily on the sheer lack of clarity. Recently, […]
The European Innovation Council’s job is to disperse funding to the companies pushing the bleeding edge of technology. This time around, it identified a Danish nuclear firm as one of its beneficiaries. Last week, the EIC announced a batch of 40 companies to receive funding under the most recent round of its accelerator program, which […]
A pair of microreactors are going to be getting cozy in the test bed at Idaho National Lab next year. The DOE picked Radiant and Westinghouse to provide the first machines to snuggle up. The upcoming generation of advanced nuclear companies has been deep in R&D for years, and it’s getting antsy to finally start […]
Watch out, world—Big Tech is making another move toward fusion power, and this time, it’s buying future power output. Google has signed the first formal offtake agreement for fusion power in the US with Commonwealth Fusion Systems. The expanded partnership is twofold: The companies declined to share financial details on a press call, including the […]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has had a busy June. In the past two weeks, the NRC has adopted new rules and policies to help advanced reactor companies get to market faster. These actions are in line with the administration’s executive orders last month, which aim to establish support for new nuclear and create pathways for […]
The Bill Gates-backed SMR company just got a fresh flush of cash. TerraPower announced that it closed a massive $650M funding round on June 18. “As AI continues to transform industries, nuclear energy is going to become a more vital energy source to help power these capabilities,” Mohamed Siddeek, corporate VP and head of NVentures, […]
Over the weekend, the US surreptitiously sent a fleet of B-2 stealth bombers armed with bunker-buster bombs and a submarine carrying Tomahawk missiles to target three nuclear infrastructure facilities in Iran. For years, Iran has insisted upon its right to enrich uranium, saying that it aims to develop its domestic nuclear energy program. While it’s […]
Big Tech is checking every nook and cranny for energy that can fuel a rapid and massive expansion of data centers. Nuclear has become a major part of that hunt, to the benefit of both traditional and advanced nuclear providers. But while one of the biggest deals between a nuclear operator and a hyperscaler has […]
The US has a nuclear fuel problem. It’s just not very good at producing it. There are few to no domestic options for uranium conversion and enrichment, and the development of advanced fuels for new reactors is limited to small batches and upstart operations. Standard Nuclear aims to fix the production deficit. This week, the […]
