Companies developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) have raised more than $1.5 billion in the past year, as tech companies hunger for power to train AI models and governments decide to commit ...
A prototype microreactor built by California startup Valar Atomics has arrived in Utah for testing, part of a broader push to ...
Isaiah Taylor founded Valar Atomics to build smaller, factory-made nuclear reactors. Their first reactor will begin ...
Valar Atomics raised $130 million with participation from Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey and Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar. Valar is developing reactor technology that uses ...
An advanced nuclear startup just achieved a milestone as it races to meet an ambitious Department of Energy goal. Founded just over two years ago in July 2023, El Segundo-based Valar Atomics announced ...
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox recently announced that the state has partnered with a California startup to bring a nuclear test reactor to the state. What he didn’t mention is that the state and the company, ...
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El Segundo-based Valar Atomics has closed a $130 million Series A funding round, led by Snowpoint Ventures with co-leads Day One and Dream. Balerion, Contrary, DTX, Alumni, Crosscut, Triplepoint, ...
Scientists just brought us one step closer to the dream of unlimited power. On November 17 at the Nevada National Security Site, a nuclear energy startup called Valar Atomics achieved zero-power ...
Anduril Industries Inc. founder Palmer Luckey, a Lockheed Martin Corp. board member, Palantir Technology Inc.’s Shyam Sankar and other investors are putting $130 million into Valar Atomics, a nuclear ...
Utah and nuclear company Valar Atomics “will be conducting research to verify the safety of nuclear technologies,” said a spokesperson for the state’s energy office.