"We Win on Innovation Ten Out Of Ten Times" – Dr. Rian Bahran, U.S. DOE Office of Nuclear Energy

"We Win on Innovation Ten Out Of Ten Times" – Dr. Rian Bahran, U.S. DOE Office of Nuclear Energy

July 10, 2026 · 1h 4m

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Dr. Rian Bahran discusses recent milestones in the U.S. nuclear sector and their implications for advanced reactors.

With the recent wave of milestones across the U.S. nuclear sector, we were eager to better understand what these achievements mean for the future of advanced reactors. Over the past month, Antares, Valar Atomics, Deployable Energy, and Aalo Atomics each achieved criticality, an important technical milestone, through the Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program (RPP) and Nuclear Energy Launch Pad. To help us put these milestones into context, we were delighted to host Dr. Rian Bahran, Depu...

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Organizations: U.S. DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, Antares, Valar Atomics, Deployable Energy, Aalo Atomics, Department of Energy, Reactor Pilot Program, Nuclear Energy Launch Pad

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