Aalo Atomics claims “provisional” site for reactor demo at INL

Aalo Atomics and the Department of Energy announced yesterday that the company has worked with Battelle Energy Alliance and the DOE’s Idaho Operations Office to develop a plan—described as “provisional,” “potential,” and “tentative”—to grant Aalo a one-acre plot of land at Idaho National Laboratory site to build a new facility that would house an experimental reactor. Aalo hopes the reactor, dubbed Aalo-X, will help the company license and commercialize Aalo-1, a 10-MWe sodium-cooled reactor.