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Today we are talking about what may be the beginning of a nuclear renaissance. I realize that this is a real estate podcast. But occasionally I come across something that has the potential to have global impact.

Over the July Fourth weekend, nuclear startup company Aalo Atomics brought a reactor to criticality at Idaho National Laboratory. The reactor was manufactured in roughly forty days. That is an extraordinary achievement, but the real story is not the stopwatch. The real story is the system behind it.

The first enabling technology is the coolant. Conventional reactors use water under high pressure. High pressure demands thick reactor vessels, specialized forgings, heavy components, and a supply chain with very few qualified manufacturers. These reactor vessels are hugely expensive and take an extraordinary amount of time to manufacture. Aalo uses liquid sodium, which transfers heat at low pressure and has a high boiling point. Lower pressure allows thinner steel vessels that can be made from plate, rolled, welded, inspected, and moved through an industrial process. That changes the manufacturing problem from one of heroic craftsmanship to one of repeatable production.

Instead of building one plant as a unique civil project, the design is broken into truckable modules. A module can be built indoors, where tools remain in place, workers repeat tasks, and quality is measured at every station. That sounds ordinary because it is how automobiles, aircraft, and industrial equipment are manufactured. 

The building was completed in thirty six days, the reactor was fabricated in less than a month, and hundreds of fuel rods were assembled in 2.5 days.

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