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Thorium Atomics

The Tesseract TGR is a factory-built, helium-cooled pebble-bed reactor for firm power and 750 °C industrial heat, on uranium fuel below 10 percent enrichment

Review noteCanadian reactor startup (offices in Toronto and Knoxville/Oak Ridge, TN) designing the Tesseract TGR, a ~250 MWth pebble-bed gas-cooled reactor with a thorium blanket; led by Young Hwang (ex-RBC/CIBC markets) and David Kerr (Algonquin Power founder) with ex-Ontario Power Generation licensing and engineering heads. Source ↗

Edge

16#116 · ▼13 in 7d

1 of 8 families

Why now

  1. New NRC pre-application docket 99902174 appeared with a letter of intent

    Regulatory · Jul 27

People

Score

Momentum23

 

Regulatory

Thesis fit94

× 0.95

Matched on enrichment, factory, hydrogen, industrial, nrc

Earliness100

× 1.00

Almost no public footprint

Team–

× 0.85

1 named person, none from a top lab or company

23 × 0.95 × 1.00 × 0.85 × 0.85 one family only = 16

Edge, 12 weeks