Ampera wants to sell nuclear power, without selling you a reactor

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Ampera wants to sell nuclear power, without selling you a reactor

https://refreshmiami.com/news/ampera-wants-to-sell-nuclear-power-without-selling-you-a-reactor/

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Ampera is developing a modular power platform that utilizes supercritical carbon dioxide for heat-to-electricity conversion. The company intends to deploy non-nuclear systems first, with plans to swap in subcritical microreactors once regulatory approval is secured. This strategy aims to provide immediate power to data centers while bypassing the long lead times associated with traditional nuclear construction and licensing.

Brian Matthews has an inconvenient answer for anyone planning to open a power-hungry data center tomorrow: You cannot simply order a nuclear reactor and have

"It doesn't exist," Matthews [pictured above] told Refresh Miami.

At least, not yet. Matthews, the founder and CEO of Palm Beach Gardens-based Ampera, is trying to change that by developing a nuclear microreactor that can be built in a factory, transported to a customer and deployed in places where a sprawling power plant would never fit.

The destination is nuclear. The journey there starts with something more readily available.

Read the full article at Refresh Miami:
https://refreshmiami.com/news/ampera-wants-to-sell-nuclear-power-without-selling-you-a-reactor/