Nuclear’s back with a bang—new startups are flooding in with cash to build next-gen reactors, but price wars might still be years away. Enter Apollo Atomics, betting big on efficiency over reinvention. Instead of redesigning the whole reactor, they’re crushing it on the steam generator—the biggest, bulkiest piece—shrinking it to make systems compact and cheap. With $26M seed funding and MIT roots, they’re racing to launch a demo reactor by 2028. Their goal? Power at just 3 cents per kWh—beating natural gas. Already built a 40-kW prototype, they plan modular plants from 10MW to 300MW, aiming to slash construction time to under two years and cut reactor costs by 4-5x. This could be the leap nuclear power needed to finally compete.
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