Roadmap to Electricity

R1

2025

Conceptual Design Review (CDR)

In 2025, we set the pace for advanced reactor development—completing our Conceptual Design Review (CDR) on an accelerated timeline and becoming the first company in the country to receive an approved Nuclear Safety Design Agreement (NSDA) for a reactor. We opened Antares Prime—322,000 sq-ft of vertically integrated R&D space—to accelerate in-house manufacturing and iteration, tested our first Electrically Heated Demonstration Unit (EDU), submitted our Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis (PDSA), prepared our reactor test site, and became the first U.S. microreactor to receive a HALEU allocation and begin fuel fabrication.

The R1 microreactor in an exploded view, its four modules stacked apart
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Aerial view of the reactor test site on the high desert plain
A long building and its shadow from directly above, in black and white
Officials cutting the ribbon at the opening of Antares Prime

2026

Reactor Demo at Idaho Lab

In 2026, we conducted our first reactor demonstration at Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program—validating reactor physics, reactivity control behavior, and system-level safety performance in operation. In parallel, we will close the final reactor design and safety analysis and complete qualification of our heat pipes, heat exchanger, and power conversion system, setting the conditions to produce electricity in 2027.

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2028

Looking ahead

In 2027, we operate a full-power, electricity-producing advanced reactor on American soil. We will validate system performance and prepare for customer deployments beginning in 2028.

Two engineers in hard hats lifting a heat pipe assembly into place
A restricted-area sign by the desert road to the site, seen through a windscreen
The founder talking with a colleague outside the reactor dome
Through a spacecraft window, a strand of hair floats against the Earth below
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Jordan BrambleCEO & Co-Founder