The developer of Nuclear Technology, Oklo, has Kiewit Nuclear Solutions as an engineering, construction and procurement entrepreneur for his estimated 75 MW-AURORA microreactor in the Idaho National Laboratory of the US Energy Dept. selected in which the first commercial operation of the advanced nuclear system will take place. The company intends to use its technology, among other things, data centers.
The selection of the contractor was announced at the beginning of this month shortly before the trump administration was unveiled, its new “action plan” for the acceleration of the construction of data centers and the associated energy infrastructure in order to increase the dominance of the United States in artificial intelligence.
The project stem is scheduled to begin this year, whereby the commercial company will be expected until the beginning of 2028, said Santa Clara, California, in Oklo, which did not reveal the contract value of Kiewit as part of a Master Services agreement, and not to consider the costs or the plans for a current or future colocated data center at the Idaho website.
Oklo previously announced that Aurora's performance had gradually expanded to 50 MW and then to the current level to support the demand for large data center customers “without adding any remarkable technical, designed or regulatory complexities”. The reactor has a quick -neutron design with a liquid metal coolant made of over -critical carbon dioxide, is stabilized itself, cooled by natural forces and, according to the company, can operate with enriched uranium or more economical recycled waste fuel. Oklo works with the Idaho Lab to be reused the fuel in a safe storage by an experimental breeder reactor that was closed in 1994.
The step to increase the performance of Aurora was “a lot of a customer -shaped design decision”, based on “where we see … The architecture of the data center, said the founder and CEO of Oklo, Jacob Dewitte, in a recently carried out company in the company results. According to the company, linked reactors can also be used for more flexibility.
Before Chris Wright played his current role as a American Minister of Energy, he was an OKLO board member of an important company investor Liberty Energy, who bought a share of $ 1 million in 2023.
According to Dewitte, Oklo has completed important milestones before building on the Idaho website, including location characterization. “Advanced reactors can largely be constructed differently than the legacy [nuclear] Plants and an important way to realize the associated economic advantages is to modernize how we design, procure and build these plants, “said Dewitte.
Kiewit, Dewitte, said: “Brings the execution strength and the project experience that are essential.” The modular architecture of Aurora Facility was designed in more environments in collaboration with Architectural Giant Giantler, said Oklo.
Evaluation of willingness
The microreactor now conducts a standby evaluation of the US Kern Regulation Commission, whereby the declared intention of OKLO should submit to the complete construction and operating permit at the end of this year. The agency has already agreed to check the project's “product-based operator license framework”, which according to Oklo is a new approach to licensing operators for the power supply. “By combining all aspects of design, construction and operation, we rationalize the way to use,” said CEO Dewitte, CEO,
This month, the defense logistics agency of the US defense department also issued a “declaration of intent” for the allocation of a contract to provide the Aurora microreactor on the Eeelson Air Force Base in Alaska, 26 miles south of Fairbank, under a long-term electricity contract agreement. DOD said the message describes Oklo as the “obvious successful provider”. The award was discontinued in 2023 and processed again on the basis of a different provider's offer, according to the media reports.
Oklo was one of eight nuclear developers who were selected for the program for advanced nuclear power for the DOD installation program, which aims to use the nuclear power plants of the US air weapon and the army base base points for microreactor systems. Other selected selection are Antares Nuclear, Bwxt Advanced Technologies, General Atomics, Kairos Power, Radiant Industries, Westinghouse Government Services and X-Egy.
Oklo was listened to Oklo in May 2024 with a Special Purpose Acquisition company, the Openai -CEO Sam Altman, the chairman of the nuclear developer, in the possession of Openai CEO. The company has completed a public offer in June that earned around 400 million US dollars and announced two new electricity supplies -one with Investor Liberty Energy that provides it until the nuclear systems with the nuclear systems and another with the cooling technology of the data center cooling technology to receive access to natural gas power plants.
Oklo has attracted the attention of market employment with its estimated evaluation of $ 10.2 billion, which was increased by Altman and other investors, but it is only generated after the use of the Idaho reactor, the Motley Fool Technology Stock Analyst Leo Sun.