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Apollo Atomics Secures $31 Million to Turn Proven Reactor Technology Into a Factory-Built Product

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6d ago Slapped together within a year. July 22, 2026 By July 4, microreactor developers Antares Nuclear, Valar Atomics, Deployable Energy, and Aalo Atomics had achieved zero-power fuelled criticality, m… +3.0
6d ago Pwr have separate loops. Bwr are much less common. Pwr are 70% of teactirs. We can choose safest types. Low pressure such as Copenhagen atomics reactor types for example. Regards LNT pmc.ncbi.nlm.n… ×2 +1.5
6d ago Other walk away safe reactor types are in developmwnt such Copenhagen atomics. ×2 +2.5
7d ago If you think CA hasn't had nuclear power reactor mishaps, read about the history of Atomics International and the 1959 accident that resulted in 1/3 of a reactor core melting down and radioactive i… ×2 -4.5
7d ago Valar Atomics' Ward 250 reached criticality in June under a Department of Energy pilot program, but the DOE record describes a zero-power demonstration and calls it the second such reactor in the p… ×2 +1.0
6d ago Good observation. I would GTFO sooner than later. If Americans think they will get any welcome if Trump with Israel Nuke 9.1 million in Tehran... Best avoid meeting people. It could get very ugly. … -7.5
6d ago Shoulda spent $100 million lobbying to turn Berkeley into the world’s largest nuclear power station. Climate Bob would love that. ×2 -2.0
6d ago Downwinders and environmental advocacy groups allege Utah’s $1.8 million taxpayer-funded "nuclear education" campaign is misleading and downplays nuclear’s risks. State officials argue their messag… -2.0
6d ago Fucking are people really doing the “TACO Trump, how dare he de escalate with North Korea” complaint again? A million things to criticize the fucker for but de-escalating vs a nuclear power…. +2.5
6d ago "The $62 million project will relocate nearly one million cubic yards of radioactive mine waste from the former mine site to a newly engineered disposal repository on nearby privately owned land ma… +3.0
6d ago U.S. Awards $2.5 Million for Nuclear Fuel Recycling Project Targeting 4,000 Tons +3.0
6d ago James Webb spotted a bizarre object just 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines with roughly 100 billion Suns’ worth of energy — because hidden inside its … +6.0
6d ago I got it! You can be the first human to toss a Nuclear Hand grenade! How fast do you run? The released neutron travels at speeds of about 10 million meters per second, or about 3% the speed of … -9.0
6d ago Carney/Ford's orgy of new dirty slow-built nuclear and fossil fuels is NEITHER clean NOR affordable. $100 billion on Fossil Fuels projects and $300 billion on Ontario's irrational U.S. tech Nuclea… -8.0
7d ago The costs land somewhere very specific. In Kuantan, close to two million tonnes of radioactive waste sit in a monsoon-prone peat swamp, in a facility Lynas’s own consultants judged safe for just tw… -8.5
7d ago Ive said it a million times so one more won’t hurt This is the real bait Bibi used to get trump into Iran It had nothing to do with nukes bibi told trump he cld build in Gaza Remember trump bra… -6.5
7d ago Armenia allocates over $3.7 million for nuclear medicine center renovation and equipment: The Armenian government has allocated over 1.4 billion AMD (approximately $3.6 million) from the 2025 state… +4.0
7d ago 100,000-Ton US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Nimitz Now Knows Its Fate and That Means It Will Never Deploy Again https://www.byteseu.com/2283099/ The U.S. Navy Budgeted $562 Million to Retire… -1.5
7d ago Modi announces AI training for one crore youth, sets nuclear power target of 100 GW by 2047 PM Modi announced a plan to train one crore (10 million) young Indians in AI skills over the next year, … +6.0
7d ago @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social I saw a documentary years ago about the launch system on an aircraft carrier and though I don’t remember the whole thing, they used like million horsepower jet engine… +1.5
7d ago www.instagram.com/reel/DcFsPsu... 👈🏻 It’s been 58 days since a nuclear reactor was turned on inside the Colorado River Basin, thanks to Gov. Cox, excellerating the evaporation rate of the water sup… ×2 -6.5
7d ago NexGen Energy Ltd has marked the official start of construction of the Rook I mine in northern Saskatchewan, which is expected to produce some 30 million pounds of uranium every year. #Nuclear #Ne… +2.0
7d ago Idiot Dugin: "Russian citizens should be relocated from cities with over a million inhabitants to villages and rural areas due to the possibility of a nuclear war with the West." -6.0
7d ago "only a million nukes" is one of the sentences you get to say regularly when you do planetary defense. join now! +1.0
7d ago Hi Josh. Planetary astronomer who works on asteroid defense here. The Chixculub impact released about 100 million to a billion megatons of energy--which is obviously a gigantic amount, but "only" … +2.0
8d ago Nuclear energy is expensive, slow to implement, and leaves waste that nobody wants. What is the attraction?! Trump Media lost $200 million in 3 months so they’re doing what corporations do - sheddi… -4.0
8d ago Operating expenditure at the UK Civil Nuclear Police Authority rose by almost £25 million during 2025-26, while reported workplace stress cases increased by 86%. Total operating expenditure increas… -3.0
6d ago Two scenarios. He drops the nuke and it's Mad. Or Europe shrugs cause it's just brown people and BRICS strategically stays their hands rather than detomatimg the world over one blast in one cou… -8.0
6d ago They know. They just don't care because he's so easy to use. They might start caring when a literal fucking nuke goes off and their investments turn into toilet paper overnight, but I'm not sure e… -6.0
6d ago They know. They just don't care because he's so easy to use. They'll start caring when a literal fucking nuke goes off and their investments turn into toilet paper overnight. -5.5

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