Oklo named to supply microreactor for Alaska airbase

4 philipkglass 1 6/13/2025, 10:35:38 PM world-nuclear-news.org ↗

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philipkglass · 12h ago
YC-backed [1] micro-reactor company Oklo won the RFP to supply an Alaskan air base with nuclear power to replace its current coal based energy system. Oklo has come a long way. They were part of the Summer 2014 batch according to their YC profile. Three years ago they suffered a hiccup when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission rejected their application to build and operate a reactor in Idaho:

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

They still need NRC approval, but replacing coal with nuclear power on a cold, remote air base is a great application for a micro-reactor.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/oklo