The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) have announced the first four developers selected for the freshly launched Nuclear Energy Launch Pad—a restructured deployment-support initiative that succeeds the DOE’s Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program and broadens federal assistance to cover the full nuclear technology stack.

The four initial participants announced on April 27 are Deployable Energy, General Matter, NuCube Energy in partnership with Idaho State University, and Radiant Nuclear.

All four were drawn from the existing pool of applicants to the predecessor pilot programs—the Reactor Pilot Program and the Fuel Line Pilot Program—and were competitively selected by DOE for inclusion, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) said on Monday. “Inclusion in the program allows these companies to begin discussion with NRIC on the enhanced technical, regulatory and deployment support Launch Pad is able to provide,” it said.

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