Kairos Power

SMRs or small modular reactors are all the buzz. So, what makes an SMR modular? By prefabricating units that can be shipped to a site for installation, Kairos Power aims to achieve construction efficiencies and cost & schedule savings for our future commercial fleet.  Kairos Power is piloting reactor equipment modularization at our Manufacturing Development Campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the second iteration of our non-nuclear Engineering Test Unit. ETU 2.0 will be our first modular build, comprising 30+ subsystem modules constructed on individual plant equipment skids. Our Pre-Commission, Install, Testing, and Assemble (PITA) team is building the skids inside our 30,000-square-foot Modular Systems Facility. Once completed, they’ll move skids into the nearby ETU enclosure for final assembly and commissioning.  Kairos Power’s experience building ETU 2.0 will inform future hardware iterations, helping us optimize our design and de-risk construction as we progress to the Hermes demonstration reactor. Plant equipment modules for Hermes will be constructed in Albuquerque and shipped to Oak Ridge, Tennessee– a significant step toward realizing the potential of a factory-built SMR to transform conventional nuclear construction.  It’s all part of Kairos Power’s rapid iterative approach to technology development, where we learn by building at every step.    

The Office of Nuclear Energy | U.S. Department of Energy has conditionally agreed to commit High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium via the HALEU Availability Program for the start-up and operation of Kairos Power’s Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor, currently under construction in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Kairos Power will use material provided by DOE to produce HALEU TRISO fuel pebbles for Hermes in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory using manufacturing processes developed and optimized in Kairos Power labs. The Hermes reactor and fuel fabrication program will provide crucial learning to enable the success of Kairos Power’s future commercial fleet.  “We are pleased to confirm this path to obtain HALEU from the U.S. Department of Energy and work with DOE staff to move the process forward,” said Edward Blandford, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder. “DOE has been a vital partner on the Hermes project, with its ongoing risk reduction investment through the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program and now the allocation of HALEU, which will allow for continued progress toward Kairos Power’s clean energy mission.” Read DOE’s announcement: https://lnkd.in/gk5j-Qks Learn more about Kairos Power’s iterative approach to fuel development: https://lnkd.in/gtNwXqHv

Data Center World AFCOM is less than a week away, and this year’s event continues to build momentum! I am very much looking forward to sharing Wednesday’s (4/16) keynote panel, Powering the Future: Google and Kairos Power's Collaborative Path to Clean Energy, with Lucia Tian (Google) and Bill Kleyman 🇺🇦 (Apolo). If you have questions and/or thoughts regarding powering the future of data centers, come find us there: https://lnkd.in/gp5Sd4_d.

Kairos Power is proud to work with Central New Mexico Community College to create career pathways in the skilled trades.   Associate Fabricator Brianna Lewis was enrolled in CNM’s welding program when she met a Kairos Power recruiter at the New Mexico Women in Trades Summit last year. She joined the company shortly after and is now part of our stellar Manufacturing team, helping us build the future of clean energy in Albuquerque.   Want to land a great job like Brianna’s? Find us this weekend at the New Mexico Women in Trades 2025 Summit.  Read about Brianna’s journey: https://lnkd.in/g7J5A_qg  Register for the Summit: https://lnkd.in/g2dsCS6H  

Kairos Power’s collaboration with NRG PALLAS will be an important enabler on our journey to deploy commercial KP-FHR technology. We are pleased to be working with them to demonstrate fuels and materials to produce clean, reliable energy for the future.

“Nuclear has to be a part of the mix given the qualities of it,” Google and Alphabet CIO Ruth Porat said at the CERAWeek by S&P Global energy conference. Read more about their deal with Kairos Power 👇 https://lnkd.in/eYGChrA5

Kairos Power applauds our partners at Google and other large energy users for signing the pledge to triple nuclear capacity by 2050. We are proud to be working with Google to deploy 500 MW of clean electricity generation and scale up commercial production within the next decade. Thank you, World Nuclear Association, for your leadership on this initiative.

Good morning from Houston! Kairos Power is at CERAWeek, connecting with industry leaders, innovators, and changemakers shaping the future of energy. Catch CEO and Co-Founder Mike Laufer speaking in the Innovation Agora today and tomorrow: Tue, 3/11 @ 4:00 p.m. Nuclear Innovation: Advancements in SMRs and advanced reactors with Lucia Tian (Head of Clean Energy and Decarbonization Technologies, Google) and Daniel Poneman (Former Deputy Secretary of Energy, Commission on Nuclear Energy and American Leadership, Co-Chair) Wed, 3/12 @ 11:00 a.m. Breaking the Nuclear Cost Barrier: Kairos Power’s Blueprint for Advanced Reactor Delivery with Jeffrey Olson (VP of Business Development & Finance, Kairos Power) #CERAWeek #CWAgora

Great to be featured on this week’s CBS News Sunday Morning, which explores the role of Google in advancing the next generation of nuclear power. ⚛️ To meet our ambitious carbon-free energy goals and power our AI-driven electricity demand we’ll need a whole portfolio of clean energy technologies, including nuclear. Large energy users like Google have a unique opportunity to help prove and scale new technologies, such as Kairos Power's small modular reactors. SMRs can deliver an ‘always on’ source of carbon-free energy, and have the potential to be built and scaled just about anywhere. Watch the story to see why we’re excited about the technology Mike Laufer and the Kairos team are developing: https://lnkd.in/gkZdgGi7

This week, CBS Sunday Morning explores nuclear energy’s role in helping tech companies like Google meet their ambitious decarbonization goals. Correspondent David Pogue stopped by Kairos Power’s Oak Ridge site to speak with CEO and co-founder Mike Laufer and see our progress toward deployment. Watch the story: https://lnkd.in/eTXPXwzd 🌞