About Corium

The gap between hype and the docket.

Advanced reactor developers make a lot of announcements. Press releases, partnerships, PowerPoint decks, congressional testimony. Most of it is directionally true but temporally vague — designed to signal progress without committing to a schedule the NRC controls.

The actual progress — the filings, the review milestones, the RAI responses, the staff evaluations — lives in ADAMS, the NRC's public document management system. It's all there. It's just dense, inconsistently formatted, and spread across hundreds of dockets.

Corium is what I wished I could have found.

One person. No investors. No agenda.

My name is Kam. I'm a mechanical engineer specializing in robotics and automation. I spent five years at Idaho National Laboratory working on robotic systems for nuclear environments — which gave me a front-row seat to how complex and consequential this industry is.

I am not a regulator. I am not affiliated with any of the companies tracked on this site. I don't take money from anyone in the nuclear industry. I have no financial position in any of these companies.

I wanted to understand the industry better and keep track of where things were actually heading. Building the tool seemed like the best way to do that.

A structured read of the public record.

Corium tracks every company that has submitted an application, pre-application, or letter of intent to the NRC for an advanced reactor license. It monitors their dockets in ADAMS, extracts meaningful signals from the document stream, and translates regulatory milestones into a standardized framework — the Circuit — that lets you compare progress across fundamentally different reactor designs and regulatory pathways.

The Corium Score is a derived metric, not a prediction. It measures documented regulatory activity and momentum, not likelihood of commercial success. A high score means a company has been actively engaging the NRC. A low score means they haven't filed much, not necessarily that they're failing.

Not a rating. Not a recommendation.

Corium is not investment research. Nothing here should be construed as financial advice, an endorsement, or a criticism of any company's business prospects. Regulatory progress and commercial success are related but not equivalent — plenty of projects have impeccable dockets and no path to financing.

Corium is also not exhaustive. The NRC is not the only regulator that matters. DOE programs, state siting processes, international licensing — these exist, and some companies are further along in those tracks than their NRC dockets suggest. I note this where relevant, but I don't pretend to have complete visibility into every pathway.

If I've made a factual error, I want to know. The contact form is below.

Corrections, tips, and serious inquiries welcome.

If you work in the industry and think I've gotten something wrong — I genuinely want to hear it. If you're a journalist, analyst, or investor who wants to talk through the data, I'm open to that.

I'm also actively seeking my next role in the nuclear industry. If you're building something interesting in this space and think my background is relevant — let's talk.

Press releases, announcements, tips on companies I should be tracking — all welcome.

Corium.

Corium is the molten mixture of nuclear fuel and structural materials formed during a reactor meltdown — one of the most extreme substances in existence. Extremely hot. Extremely dense. Nearly impossible to stop once it starts moving.

The nuclear industry has had a meltdown of information for decades. Regulatory filings buried in government databases. Licensing timelines opaque to everyone outside the process. Capital flowing into companies that most people can't evaluate.

Corium is named for that meltdown — and built to clean it up.