Tim Frazier

"The interesting thing is the ideal nuclear product that customers are demanding today is very different from the ideal nuclear product from 50 years ago. There are 400 reactors around the world today and they're all basically bespoke. They're one-off giga-scale projects. The 100 or so reactors in this country were one-offs for large utilities. Different people built them. They had different designs. That's really the challenge - that is why it takes ten years plus to build one of these large plants, and why they cost so much money. Some people view Three Mile Island as the nail in the coffin, but it wasn't really the main turning point. There was a time in the 70s when nuclear was as cheap or cheaper than coal. Normalized to today's dollars, it was around five cents a kilowatt-hour. Then regulations started to increase. There were a lot of people trying to throw the baby out with the bathwater, people who wanted to get rid of the weapon and didn't understand that the energy source is very different. And it's really unfortunate, because nuclear is probably one of the best energy sources we have available. Clean baseload. Works anywhere, anytime. Tiny footprint. And contrary to popular public perception, as safe as solar and wind." - @MattLoszak, CEO & cofounder of Aalo Atomics, at Dreamforce 2026.

The story of nuclear energy is the story of the American spirit.

We are proud to welcome J.R. Biggs to Aalo Atomics as Senior Vice President of Nuclear Operations. J.R. brings more than 45 years of experience taking complex nuclear facilities from concept to operation. He previously served as Deputy Director for Advanced Reactor Demonstrations at Battelle Energy Alliance. He also chaired the Joint Test Group for advanced reactor startup at Idaho National Laboratory. In those roles, he supported DOE startup authorization and oversaw construction, fueling, startup testing, and initial criticality. His career includes many of the nation's most significant advanced reactor programs including the restart of the TREAT reactor, Project Pele, Antares Mk-0, and the establishment of DOME as a Hazard Category 2 nuclear facility. At Aalo, he will work on the operational organization and governance needed to take advanced reactors from development to commercial deployment. Deploying reactors at scale requires more than great technology. It requires disciplined execution and operational excellence. Few people have shown this more often than J.R. and we're honored to have him.

Record-high support for new nuclear reactors in the US. Now is the age of builders 🇺🇸🇺🇸

First reactor deployed, power plant underway at the Aalo-X campus:

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Aalo is proud to be a contributor to the AI for Nuclear Energy Consortium, an initiative led by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) with partners across national labs, academia, and the private sector, including Nvidia and Microsoft. Structured as part of the DOE Genesis Mission, the program leverages DOE’s unparalleled combination of nuclear expertise, experimental facilities and advanced computing resources to reduce the cost of new nuclear energy. The consortium will develop Prometheus, an agentic AI platform spanning the nuclear lifecycle.