Nuclear Company Oklo Receives Startup Authorization for Groves Reactor, A Key Step In Its ...

Oklo received Department of Energy startup authorisation for its Groves test reactor in Texas in just over 10 months—unprecedented speed under the Trump Administration's Reactor Pilot Programme. The expedited pathway, with an 18-month NRC review deadline, demonstrates a regulatory model Oklo says is fully translatable to its commercial small modular reactor deployments.

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