Mankind has still built fewer than 2000 nuclear reactors. Just like any other industry, you need scale to realize the inherent economics that are apparent in the nature of nuclear energy. Even though nuclear fission was invented nearly 100 years ago, we are still just getting started.


Historically, creating the level of scale necessary to unlock the economic potential of nuclear energy has been difficult. To meet the demands of the grid, nuclear reactors evolved to gigawatt scale units, installed in ones and twos and threes in widely disparate locations. While it seems intuitive that nuclear is the best solution for grid power (its base load and capacity factor alone tell a compelling story), it turns out that the grid is actually the wrong anchor customer to really scale nuclear energy.

Scale requires thousands of reactors, remember? So, Valar Atomics builds thousands of reactors on one large site, vertically integrating from design through construction and operation, and amortizing site costs across gigawatts instead of megawatts of energy capacity. In order to do this, we not only supply grid energy, but we also produce other products which are not tied to local grid needs: hydrogen, data center power, heavy industrial power, and synthetic hydrocarbon fuels.