40,000 square-foot pilot factory in Austin, TX. Opened April 2025 alongside the unveiling of Aalo's first full-scale non-nuclear prototype of the Aalo-1 reactor. Anchor of Aalo's factory-first manufacturing strategy — modules built in Austin, shipped to site for assembly. Targeting fuel fabrication and mass production capability through 2025-2026.
Land purchased in Texas to deploy a non-nuclear prototype where Aalo can test all elements of its design including sodium coolant. Construction underway. Key de-risking milestone for the Aalo-1 commercial design before INL Aalo-X criticality. Demonstrates Aalo's sodium-handling capability outside the regulated nuclear envelope.
Aalo selected as one of four firms for Texas A&M's "Energy Proving Ground" SMR siting program at the RELLIS Campus. Allocated up to 1 GW of nuclear energy generation capacity. Same site selection program that picked Terrestrial Energy and others — RELLIS becomes a multi-company SMR demonstration cluster. Texas-based deployment aligns with Aalo's home state strategy and recent state legislation supporting nuclear development.
Aalo's flagship commercial product unveiled April 2025. 50 MWe extra modular reactor (XMR) purpose-built for AI data center on-site power. Each Pod = 5 Aalo-1 reactors (10 MWe each) + 1 shared turbine. Reactors are fully modular and "snap together like Legos" via standardized electrical and fluid interfaces. Scalable from single 10 MW units to gigawatt-scale facilities. Target cost: 3 cents per kilowatt-hour. "XMR" is Aalo's coined term distinguishing the modular factory architecture from traditional SMR concepts.
Aalo Atomics' commercial reactor product. 30 MWth / 10 MWe sodium-cooled microreactor. Architecture directly inspired by INL's MARVEL microreactor (designed by CTO Yasir Arafat at DOE). Factory-built and shipped as modules — assembled on site. Critical fuel pivot June 2025: shifted from MARVEL's uranium-zirconium hydride (UZrHx) fuel to UO2 at 8% enrichment (LEU+) — chose supply chain maturity over fuel-physics optimization. Future option to move to HALEU 20% "only if cost is right" per Loszak. Aalo-X experimental at INL uses standard 5% LEU as starter fuel.
First-of-a-kind XMR pilot built to validate the Aalo-1 commercial design. 10 MWe factory-built experimental power plant, modules assembled on-site at INL. **TARGET: criticality on July 4, 2026** — symbolic Independence Day milestone. Built next to INL's Materials and Fuels Complex. Notable construction innovation: precision vertical drilling instead of conventional blasting/open-cut excavation — proven in skyscraper foundations and diamond mines, double the speed at half the cost. Site sits within a previously disturbed parcel covered by an approved EIS from the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) program (which was 30x larger thermal output) — accelerates environmental review.
2023 Seed round. Specific amount publicly reported as approximately $5M based on industry sources. Foundational raise that established Aalo's Austin TX presence and INL-pseudo-spinout structure.
Series A round April 2024 led by Valor Equity Partners. Funded the 40,000 sqft Austin TX manufacturing facility buildout (opened April 2025) and the full-scale non-nuclear prototype. Established Aalo's manufacturing-first commercial thesis.
Series B round August 19, 2025 led by Valor Equity Partners. 11 investors participated. Brings cumulative funding to $136M+. NRG Energy participation notable — first major US utility / merchant generator on the Aalo cap table. Hitachi Ventures connects to GE Hitachi nuclear ecosystem. Funds Aalo-X prototype build at INL targeting July 4, 2026 criticality, plus pilot factory + 120-person team scale-up.