🚨COMING SOON: NUCLEAR-POWERED CARGO SHIPS 🚨
@USDOT is working to fast-track construction of a new fleet of vessels to change the game and DOMINATE China
THAT MEANS:
📦 MORE CARGO (no internal fuel tanks)
🚢 FASTER SHIPS (up to 75% faster crossings)
🌐 ZERO EMISSIONS (20 years of continuous power without refueling)
The first NUCLEAR-POWERED vessel is set to be built in 2028 🇺🇸
Very excited about our selection for DOE’s launchpad. In a continuation of the rapid progress we made under the reactor pilot program, we will use the same licensing path for upcoming defense deployments and continue to prototype at @INL.
This ensures our private capital is going towards technology development and our customers are receiving proven systems.
This nails the @AntaresNuclear thesis spot on. The next gen nuclear that ultimately comes down the cost curve and reaches commercially performant economics will start with military deployment first.
The @USArmy Janus program will be for nuclear what NASA COTS was for space. The first advanced reactors to deploy in the U.S. will be on military installations.
Data center hyperscalars have been very clear — they want mature proven products. The only way to get there is through iteration, and the military is investing alongside of industry to get there. We will emerge from our military work with more operational proof at scale, more regulatory reps, and an exercised supply chain before a single data center reactor has been commissioned. We at @AntaresNuclear will put a billion dollars to work to get to true commercial viability.
As a result, the nuclear companies that ultimately win the commercial market will emerge from military deployment first. Not unlike the first nuclear age, rocket propulsion, or the semiconductor.
We've signed a binding fuel supply agreement with @AntaresNuclear. 🇺🇸
Standard Nuclear will supply TRISO fuel through 2035 for Antares microreactors built for defense and space missions.
Read more: https://t.co/xiuwOvaSX3.
Antares is now performing on Army’s Janus program, the largest nuclear energy contract of our time.
Janus is to Antares what NASA’s COTS program was to SpaceX: milestone-based R&D funding that transitions to gov't procurement.
Antares is now at $1B in gov't contracts (not LOIs!) across the Army, Air Force, and Space Force.
LFG!!!
@AntaresNuclear is having a year:
- Selected for Air Force's ANPI Program
- First new reactor to criticality
- $470m Series C
- SpaceWERX STRATFI
- Selected for Army's Janus Program
There are big deals and then there are REALLY big deals.
Congratulations to @jordanbramble and the rest of the @AntaresNuclear team on winning Janus.
Incredible to see this team now serving the @USArmy , @usairforce, and @USSpaceForce.
It's time to deploy.