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Small factory-built fission reactors, generally under 20 MWe, designed for transport and quick deployment at remote or off-grid sites.
DOE has selected Deployable Energy's Unity microreactor for a full-power test at Idaho National Laboratory's DOME facility in 2027. It is the first Unity test aimed at the questions an off-grid buyer asks about delivery and removal, though it stops short of a license.
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Prodigy Clean Energy picked two 22 MW BWXT reactors for a transportable plant in Belledune, New Brunswick, with about 18 months of on-site work. Its power would go to the local grid, so remote diesel sites learn about licensing first.
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The framework is non-binding and unfinanced. At 15 MW a reactor, the 2040 target implies about 400 units, and the only consideration named is up to $105 million in NANO equity.
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The collaboration with the Idaho National Laboratory Foundation, EXP and Premier Technology covers licensing, manufacturing and training. Testing at a Department of Energy laboratory would take separate agreements.
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The multi-year contract gives the microreactor developer a US-origin fuel supply for Army and Air Force programs. It also hands Centrus customer money for its Piketon expansion. Antares plans its first base deployments in 2028.
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NuCube's Advanced Research and Test Reactor takes out the mechanical coolant pumps, so its safety case now rests on data that NuCube and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories are still gathering on how sealed pipes behave above 900 degrees.
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The Kaleidos microreactor left El Segundo for Idaho National Laboratory on August 12, bound for a five-phase test campaign that ends with 150 hours of unattended full-power operation.
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