Tori Shivanandan

President & COO at @RadiantNuclear

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

I had a great time on MTS talking about the future of Nuclear in America. LET'S BUILD REACTORS!

[MTS @MTSlive]

Radiant's Tori Shivanandan: "Electrons are to Space Force what jet fuel is to the Air Force."

@torishiv, President and COO of @RadiantNuclear, on the reason America lost the ability to iterate on nuclear and the reactor going to Buckley Space Force Base 18 months from now.

00:52 "Digging the hole is where you lose control of cost and timeline, so Radiant put a one-megawatt reactor in a box that comes back to the factory for refueling"

04:26 "Radiant was founded to colonize Mars but pivoted to Earth after realizing the American grid is broken and behind-the-meter power is the fix"

06:34 "45% of Americans experienced at least one power outage last year and the wildfires in California are largely attributed to grid performance"

09:09 "Data centers can pay for their own power, leaving behind the boring American business already running on the fragile grid"

11:11 "First reactor goes to Buckley Space Force Base because electrons are to Space Force what jet fuel is to the Air Force"

12:35 "Peak power charges hit 25 to 55 cents per kilowatt hour in a quarter of the US and it's still getting worse"

13:33 "Winning nuclear looks like shipping the 100th reactor to a US military base and having it be as second-rate news as a SpaceX launch"

17:15 "America woke up to the fact it was buying uranium enrichment from Russia and China and threw $900 million at domestic HALEU supply"

20:29 "The full-power test at Idaho National Lab runs five phases from component testing to a 150-hour endurance test with no operator in the loop"

24:33 "Oil and gas gave America abundance and now nuclear microreactors are the next atoms for prosperity everywhere on Earth and among the stars"

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@MTSlive @RadiantNuclear Thanks for having me on, really enjoyed the conversation.

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

American nuclear is being built right here and right now. Today, Congressman Fleischmann came to see our progress on our R-50 manufacturing site in Tennessee.

LET'S BUILD REACTORS!

[Chuck Fleischmann @RepChuck]

I got to see incredible progress while visiting @RadiantNuclear as they were pouring concrete for their reactor fuel facility on cleaned-up legacy land here in Oak Ridge. New nuclear is literally rising in the heart of the Manhattan Project.

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@IanRountree what a compliment! still a lot to prove and grateful for the support from awesome partners. LET'S BUILD REACTORS!!!!!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@AlexPallNY Thanks @AlexPallNY. You've been a real one, since day one. LET'S BUILD REACTORS!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@MichelleVolz @RadiantNuclear Always appreciate your perspective. LET'S BUILD REACTORS!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@TimDraper @DraperVC Thanks for your support! LET'S BUILD REACTORS!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@tdoggyholhol Glad you enjoyed it!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

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[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@ShaneMac Glad you enjoyed it!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@RachelSlaybaugh @MarcL_Guru @RadiantNuclear Exactly, @RachelSlaybaugh. Thanks!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@usv EXACTLY!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@ameekapadia LET'S BUILD REACTORS!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@AdamDraper @RadiantNuclear Thanks for all the support along the way. LET'S BUILD REACTORS!

[Tori Shivanandan @torishiv]

@OverReactor1776 Thanks Seth! You have been such a force in the industry. If anyone understands how complex reactors are, you certainly do...

[Rachel Slaybaugh @RachelSlaybaugh]

I have been in the nuclear energy sector for over 20 years, and what is happening right now is more exciting than anything I’ve seen.

Read about that and why I’m finally willing to say “nuclear renaissance” again: https://t.co/Fm4V58rivD

#NuclearEnergy #DeepTech #CleanEnergy

[Radiant @RadiantNuclear]

This Fourth of July we're not just celebrating 250 years of American history – we're building the next chapter of American energy.

Made in America, for America.

[Radiant @RadiantNuclear]

Actuators are some of the most important components of any reactor. They power control blades - which are mission critical for any safety system.
Ours are optimized to withstand heat, pressure, and radiation while being compact enough to enable our reactor to be transportable via land, sea and air.

One of the many technologies developed at Radiant.

[Radiant @RadiantNuclear]

Over 100 pounds of medium enriched uranium arrived for our first reactor!

Our partner, @StandardNuclear manufactured this new fuel in America, and at a pace accelerated with direct @ENERGY support.

This is the only microreactor tuned TRISO particle fuel.

Radiant designed it with our customers in mind, to reduce cost of manufacture and to improve transportability!