Peter Hastings

Husband, father, #CleanEnergyAdvocate, @NCSU nuke, world traveler, recovering cyclist, opinions are my own

[Peter Hastings @peterhastings]

@Uber_Support are you listening?

[Peter Hastings @peterhastings]

@Uber has erected institutional barriers to customers being able to contact the company for help. I have dozens of fraudulent charges on my account and the only common denominator is Uber. I'm trying to convince myself that Uber isn't who compromised my card, but it's impossible.

[Peter Hastings @peterhastings]

@Uber provides wildly inconsistent information on transaction history, and shows no interest in helping its CUSTOMERS unwind the accounting nightmare.

[Peter Hastings @peterhastings]

@Uber has no phone number listed for support and does not respond to Facebook messenger. I called the "safety" number (which also is not listed publicly) and was promised a response "right away."

[Chuck Fleischmann @RepChuck]

Ahead of the annual @ValleyCorridor Conference in
Oak Ridge tomorrow,I toured @KairosPower's Hermes Demonstration Reactor construction site, which will be the first advanced test reactor built in the United States.

The TVC Conference will bring together Kairos and hundreds of other leaders from government, industry, and academia who are creating America's New Nuclear Renaissance.

[Kairos Power @KairosPower]

FIRST NUCLEAR CONCRETE 🏗

Kairos Power has commenced nuclear safety-related construction of the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Read our announcement: https://t.co/kF383wofNi

[Kairos Power @KairosPower]

Kairos Power is proud to join the Texas Nuclear Alliance and play a role in securing the Lone Star State's clean energy future ⚡

[Gov. Bill Lee @GovBillLee]

TN is ready-made to lead America’s energy independence with nuclear energy for the future.

I thank @KairosPower for partnering with @UTKnoxville to further invest in our efforts to upskill TN’s workforce & prepare students to enter the nuclear field. https://t.co/KqSMmt2r6S

[Peter Hastings @peterhastings]

Fellow business travelers: if you want confidence in your air travel arrangements, DO NOT book flights on other carriers through @AmericanAir. They disavow responsibility for anything that might go wrong.

[World Nuclear News @W_Nuclear_News]

Google has agreed to purchase energy under a deal that will support the first commercial deployment of @KairosPower's fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature small modular reactor by 2030 and a fleet totalling 500 MW of capacity by 2035.
https://t.co/yUg8omiQZt #nuclear

[Peter Hastings @peterhastings]

@AmericanAir Done. No response.

[Peter Hastings @peterhastings]

@AmericanAir, your inability to coordinate, or even communicate, with your so-called “partner” airlines is outrageous and absurd. Why even allow booking on another carrier through your system if you’re simply going to disavow any responsibility for helping when things go wrong?

[Peter Hastings @peterhastings]

And by the way, they say, very similarly, “so sorry, you booked though American, so we can’t help you.”

[Michael Terrell @michael_terrell]

1/ Today, @Google signed the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase clean nuclear energy from a series of small modular reactors (SMRs), to be developed by @KairosPower - our first-ever advanced nuclear deal. ⚛ Our blog: https://t.co/spRgc078ie

[Dr. Jessica R. Lovering @J_Lovering]

This is super cool. Way to be a leader, @Google!

[Jeremy Harrell @jharrell]

Huge news for 24/7 #cleanenergy today - @Google and @KairosPower announce a deal to bring their first advanced reactor to market by 2030, and up to 500 MWs by 2035.

New #nuclear is happening!

https://t.co/r30BkArxYJ

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Today we signed a pioneering agreement to purchase clean energy in the US from @KairosPower, a leader in building small modular nuclear reactors. It’s the latest step in our history of accelerating clean energy sources and will help support AI investments. https://t.co/euRuuIjgdk

[Kairos Power @KairosPower]

BREAKING: Kairos Power and @Google have signed a Master Plant Development Agreement, creating a path to deploy a U.S. fleet of advanced nuclear power projects totaling 500 MW by 2035.

Read the announcement: https://t.co/opYOllPq3T

[Kairos Power @KairosPower]

BREAKING: Kairos Power has started construction on the Hermes Low-Power Demonstration Reactor, the first and only Gen IV reactor to be approved for construction by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the first non-light-water reactor to be permitted in the U.S. in over 50 years.

Read our press release: https://t.co/OVkC4I2jTq

[Peter Hastings @peterhastings]

Four months ahead of schedule…

[Kairos Power @KairosPower]

The @NRCgov has completed its final safety evaluation for the proposed Hermes 2 demonstration plant to be built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In its Final Safety Evaluation Report (FSER) released on July 19, NRC staff determined there are no safety aspects that would preclude issuing the construction permit for the facility. The conclusion aligns with the findings of the independent Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards issued two days earlier and comes just one year after Kairos Power submitted the Hermes 2 construction permit application in July 2023.

In harmony with Kairos Power’s rapid iterative development approach, Hermes 2 would build upon learnings from the Hermes low-power demonstration reactor, adding power generation to demonstrate complete plant architecture and supply clean electricity to the grid. Its objectives would be to further reduce risk on the path to commercializing KP-FHR technology, accelerating Kairos Power’s experience in licensing, construction, operations, training, and decommissioning to help achieve cost certainty for future commercial plants.

“We are proud to have partnered with the NRC on an effective and efficient review and are delighted with the staff’s completion nearly four months ahead of schedule,” said Peter Hastings, Kairos Power Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality. “We have expended a tremendous effort to provide all the necessary information to support the staff’s findings while identifying opportunities to streamline review processes and demonstrating definitively that advanced reactors can be licensed under the existing regulatory framework.”

“We are very happy to be in the position to pilot the NRC’s newly updated process for streamlining the mandatory hearing,” said Darrell Gardner, Senior Director of Licensing. “We look forward to continuing to discern possibilities for additional efficiencies. Demonstrating regulatory successes is not only essential to advancing Kairos Power’s mission to enable the clean energy transition; it is also important to reinforce the nation’s nuclear energy leadership goals.”

Thank you to the entire Kairos Power team for making this achievement possible – an important milestone for advancing our clean energy mission in East Tennessee and across the country. Read more in the NRC’s press release: https://t.co/mgJmbiJyYU