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Valar Atomics Raises $1B to Mass-Produce Nuclear Reactors

Valar Atomics has closed a $1 billion Series B led by Sequoia Capital, money the three-year-old nuclear company says will take it from running a single test reactor in Utah to building small reactors on a production line. Valar announced the round on August 3, 2026, along with a separate $200 million credit facility, and said Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire is joining its board. The announcement names nine other firms in the equity round, among them Valor Equity Partners and Conviction, and… [...]

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In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is [...]

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Sequoia leads $1 billion round for Valar Atomics as the nuclear startup triples its valuation to $6 billion

Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, valuing the nuclear startup at $6 billion. That is three times the $2 billion valuation from its earlier round just months ago. Atreides Ma [...]

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Why on Earth would NASA build a nuclear reactor on the Moon?

"Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon" is not a headline I imagined reading before last week. Sure, as a sci-fi loving nerd, I could see a future where nuclear power played a role i [...]

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A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power

Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The m [...]

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Valar Atomics Says It's the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality

A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it's the first to do so—but it had some help. [...]

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Amazon reveals what one of the US' first modular nuclear reactors will look like

To meet its massive energy demand for its AI and cloud services, Amazon is investing in nuclear power as a cleaner option. After signing agreements to help build nuclear energy projects last year, the [...]

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Meta announces a slew of nuclear energy agreements

Meta has announced three new agreements to purchase nuclear power for its AI infrastructure as well as the Prometheus supercluster, a 1-gigawatt data center being built in Ohio. The social media giant [...]

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The Morning After: Amazon broke the internet (for a bit)

A decent-sized chunk of the internet stopped working after a fairly massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. This included Venmo, Snapchat, Canva and Fortnite — even Amazon’s own products went on [...]

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Meta signs multi-decade nuclear energy deal to power its AI data centers

Meta has signed a 20-year agreement with Constellation Energy that will allow it to purchase nuclear power supplied by the Clinton Clean Energy Center in southern Illinois. To help fuel its AI ambitio [...]

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