Aalo Atomics

Today, we're sharing our strategic partnership with Crusoe to launch the first nuclear-powered AI factory data center, designed to validate nuclear power’s effectiveness with AI workloads.

Aalo will initially power a Crusoe Spark™ modular data center, running Crusoe Cloud, in 2027 at Idaho National Laboratory.

Looking forward, Aalo and Crusoe intend to deploy Aalo Pods, Aalo’s 50 MWe XMR power plants, at Crusoe data centers by the end of 2029.

The collaboration is already underway at the Idaho National Lab (INL) in direct partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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The CTR at the Aalo-X campus reached criticality on July 4, 2026. Construction is underway on Aalo's second nuclear reactor, a 10 MWe power plant.

More details below:

Can the nuclear supply chain support demand for advanced reactors?

In Episode 5 of Critical Thinking, @yasir_fission and Aalo's Greg Manhire and Jonathan Akin discuss the nuclear supply chain and what it means to prepare for an extensive buildout. Listen:

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Yesterday, the US House passed four major bills on nuclear energy and sent them to the Senate. Nuclear continues to be red, white, and blue. Bills passed:

H.R. 3978 - Nuclear REFUEL Act: establishes a streamlined regulatory framework under 10 CFR Part 70 for nuclear fuel recycling facilities which do not separate plutonium.

H.R. 9612 - American Enrichment Deployment Act: advances domestic uranium enrichment capabilities to strengthen the U.S. nuclear fuel supply chain.

H.R. 9613 - Nuclear Advisory Committee Reform Act: reforms the federal advisory board that counsels regulators on nuclear energy safety and deployment.

H.R. 9614 - NRC Staff Pay Alignment Act: modifies compensation structures to help retain technical expertise.

We are proud to welcome Dr. Mo Shams to Aalo Atomics as Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs.

Mo is one of the people who rebuilt how America licenses advanced reactors, with 25 years of engineering and nuclear regulatory experience.

He previously served as Senior Director & Deputy of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs at TerraPower, where he led licensing activities for the Natrium and MCFR reactors. That work contributed to the NRC’s ahead-of-schedule issuance of a construction permit for the first commercial non-light-water reactor in the U.S. in more than 40 years.

At X-energy, his efforts advanced domestic and international licensing for the Xe-100 reactor, including the construction permit application at Seadrift and fast-follower licensing applications.

Prior to industry, Mo spent 17 years at the NRC, where he rose to Director of the Division of Advanced Reactors, Research & Test Reactors, and Medical Isotope Facilities. By helping lead the NRC’s advanced reactor program and modernizing its frameworks, he has directly supported America's advanced nuclear resurgence.

Mo also coached the teams that completed the Kairos Hermes construction permit reviews in less than half the standard schedule, led a first-of-a-kind collaboration with Canadian regulators that has become an international model for regulatory harmonization, and spearheaded the NRC’s efforts to enable efficient microreactor licensing.

Mo holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech. At Aalo, he will lead regulatory strategy as we build on the criticality of our reactor at Idaho National Laboratory and bring the Aalo Pod to customers.

Continued progress in the factory: Aalo has been fabricating steam generators and vessels, formalizing quality control procedures, and stamping test programs for Aalo-0, our full-scale Sodium Testing facility.

Whereas criticality derisked the nuclear core, Aalo-0 derisks the heat-transfer systems that take nuclear heat and make usable electricity. Steam generation with advanced liquid metal coolant, turbine operations, and on-site compute module integrations are on the roadmap for 2027.

Aalo is moving quickly without rushing: systematically derisking our entire nuclear power plant  to enable cost control through vertical integration and mass-manufacturing. That's what it takes to bring clean, firm nuclear electricity to America.