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Air Force plans microreactor at Alaska base pending NRC approval (stripes.com)
15 points by LinuxBender 8 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The plan is to install an Aurora reactor from YC-backed Oklo Inc:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/oklo

https://www.oklo.com/

The Aurora reactor design is a small, sodium cooled fast neutron spectrum reactor:

https://oklo.com/technology/default.aspx

The "pending NRC approval" part may take a while, as Oklo previously had a difficult time interfacing with the NRC:

"Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators" (HN front page story, 2022-01-24)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937836




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