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Air Force plans microreactor at Alaska base pending NRC approval
- philipkglass 3y agoThe plan is to install an Aurora reactor from YC-backed Oklo Inc: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/oklo https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/oklo https://www.oklo.com/ https://www.oklo.com/ The Aurora reactor design is a small, sodium cooled fast neutron spectrum reactor: https://oklo.com/technology/default.aspx 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937836