Slap-dash, fly-by-night startup SMRs without the same procedural and security rigor of existing plants coming soon to "sacrifice zone" backyards near you.
Disclaimer: I worked in Campbell CA at a nuclear engineering consultancy for 5 years where things were done properly.
Since you're in industry, any thoughts on the Rellis "test bench" at Texas A&M?
"SMR Four" Consortium:
In early 2025, Texas A&M selected four other major SMR companies to deploy reactors at RELLIS:
Kairos Power: Developing fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors.
Natura Resources: Working on liquid-fueled molten salt reactors (MSRs).
Aalo Atomics: Focused on factory-fabricated microreactors (the "Aalo-1").
Terrestrial Energy: Developing the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR).
Announcement post: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/01/meta-nuclear-energy-projec...
Slap-dash, fly-by-night startup SMRs without the same procedural and security rigor of existing plants coming soon to "sacrifice zone" backyards near you.
Disclaimer: I worked in Campbell CA at a nuclear engineering consultancy for 5 years where things were done properly.
Since you're in industry, any thoughts on the Rellis "test bench" at Texas A&M?
"SMR Four" Consortium:
So these particular agreements are mostly with big, centralized plants, not SMRs in particular. Many others in the AI space and broligarchy want SMRs.