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It’s not a tiny home. It’s actually a nuclear microreactor powerplant – Inaugural deployment is to be near the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

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How would you like to visit your local nuclear power facility and maybe go for a swim in its indoor pool? Or hang out and look at art … Maybe even just sit with friends and enjoy a cup of coffee in the warm glow of nuclear power?

Its inaugural deployment is to be near the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) west of Idaho Falls. In 2020, INL announced it would provide Oklo with access to five tonnes of recovered spent nuclear fuel from the EBR-II reactor to develop and demonstrate the Aurora microreactor. The HALEU recovered from the EBR-II will go through a molten salt bath and electrolysis to be cleaned before it is mixed with low-enriched uranium (LEU) and cast into small circular ingots.

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