A rendering of the proposed Kronos MRR at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Image: NANO Nuclear Energy Inc.
New York City–based advanced nuclear technology developer Nano Nuclear and the Office of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced on Tuesday that Nano will receive $6.8 million in state funding to establish its new manufacturing and research and development facility in Illinois.
This Oak Brook, Ill., location will be a demonstration and office facility for Nano Nuclear’s Kronos MMR project. (Photo: Nano Nuclear)
Concept art of NANO Nuclear’s KRONOS MMR research reactor that UIUC plans to operate on its campus in Champaign, Ill. (Image: NANO Nuclear)
Plans to bring a university research reactor like no other to the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) were punctuated last fall by the news that Ultra Safe Nuclear, the developer of the gas-cooled reactor technology selected for the Illinois Microreactor Project, had declared bankruptcy.
Concept art of NANO Nuclear’s ALIP MR-12 internal structure (skeleton). (Image: Nano Nuclear)
To better educate customers and stakeholders on its technology, NANO Nuclear Energy has opened a new demonstration facility in Westchester County, N.Y., that offers an up-close look at nonnuclear parts and components of the four microreactors the company has in development.