We sell power directly to hyperscalers and advanced industry
Neither a pure SMR developer nor a project developer:
Applied Atomics is a full-stack power provider and your partner through design, build, & operation.
We launched Applied Atomics because we were frustrated with the state of the nuclear industry.
Dozens of companies are deep in development on advanced SMRs that promise everything from more efficient neutronics to complete passive safety.
What they don’t promise?
Affordable, available power.
We don’t blame them — they’re focused only on the reactor and the “balance of plant” is handed off to outsider firms. They have no insight or control over the final cost or availability of power.
The best reactor innovations on the planet mean nothing if they don’t produce affordable power.
Our differentiator is our focus not on new technologies, but on better approaches to the business of nuclear.
On the other end of the spectrum, development companies propose taking existing reactors off the shelf, teaming with EPCs, and deploying.
We do not believe this is a path to affordable power. A deployment company controls nothing in the development cycle - whether their chosen reactor is ready to go, what its price is, or if it’ll be available again in the future.
Yet we know that nuclear fission is the clearest path to dense, firm, geographically unconstrained, and weather-agnostic power that can be built today.
Applied Atomics is charting the middle path: A full-stack, in-house developed reactor and power plant, coupled together and co-located where our customers need power.
Applying Deep Aerospace Deployment Expertise to the Nuclear Industry
It seems like everyone says they’re the “SpaceX of nuclear” these days. And why not? Who wouldn’t want to be aligned with the most transformational hardware company of our time?
But SpaceX is a multi-hundred-billion-dollar company that has spent 20 years reinventing launch and most companies making the comparison are trying to align themselves with Starship’s development approach.
We talk instead about how we’re building the Falcon 9 of the nuclear industry.
Falcon 9 became the most successful rocket in history not by reinventing the concept of launch through new physics and materials, but by doubling down on what worked — a tried-and-true vehicle architecture, existing fuel, and a capsule as the cherry on top — then vertically integrating the full-stack within the company. This aligned every team behind the common goal of fast, affordable launch and built a moat through revenue, data, and deployment.
Our leadership was there, working on that program from the early days. We developed launch pads, deployed landing barges, and helped navigate the highly regulated mission space. Now we’re applying those lessons to help the nuclear industry move forward.
We had front-row seats to witnessing what it takes to build and operate heavy infrastructure from initial design through final deployment, then we built our careers repeating that process dozens of times.
Space launch is the only industry in U.S. history where America squandered an early lead, let the industry languish for 30 years while cost-plus monopolies reigned, and then somehow not only regained the lead but slashed costs in the process.
Applied Atomics is positioned to make nuclear power the next.
Working toward the nuclear renaissance.
We overcame knowledge gaps, deprecated supply chains, shallow technical labor pools, and stringent regulatory environments — all lessons that will be required to revitalize this industry.
If you want to take a deep dive into how we did it then, and how we’re working to do the same in nuclear now, reach out to request our 50-page company blueprint.
“Everyone’s trying to build a better mousetrap. I just need a mousetrap.”
- SteveN aumeier, Senior Adviser for Nuclear Energy Programs and Strategy, Idaho National Laboratory