"It's important we resolve this issue for data centers, because otherwise Elon's going to do it all in space. I think there's a real advantage to doing a lot of it on Earth, because more energy is more wealth. More energy is more abundance. What @ChaseLochmiller (@CrusoeAI) is doing is a great excuse to deploy a ton of energy all around the country. After a PPA is done with a data center, maybe some of these sites just go onto the grid, and suddenly we have a lot more energy in the country. The public should want a lot more energy. I really hope humanity gets this right, because a lot is at stake. Energy is health. Energy is abundance. And we should want it. Otherwise it'll go into space." - @MattLoszak, CEO & cofounder of Aalo Atomics, at @salesforce Dreamforce 2026.

Aalo joined @OECD_NEA and @ENERGY in Paris for Roadmaps to New Nuclear 2026. Hundreds of delegates representing 30+ countries, including Aalo's @timothyafrazier, discussed the global need to deploy new nuclear at scale Nuclear solves today's data center and electrification needs with rapidly deployable, site-flexible power infrastructure.

What happened with Nuclear is the best lesson on the importance of not making the same mistake with AI. Overregulation and vilification will cause us to lose out on huge potential upside.

Congratulations to our partner @CrusoeAI on a $3.9 billion raise to scale AI factories. We look forward to powering a modular Crusoe Spark data center next year with energy from Aalo-X, our first nuclear power plant.

"When we started the company, it was pretty fortuitous timing. If you look at when we started hiring and you overlay that chart with the Google search trend for AI as a search query, it's the exact same day that we started the company. It was always on our radar that we wanted to power data centers as a top priority. But I think no one could have foretold just how much demand there would be from data centers even three years ago, which is amazing to say. If you look at the past 25 years, data centers used to be a few megawatts. Then ten was massive. That was a huge campus. Then it went into 20 megawatts, then 50. And now Crusoe is building multi-100-megawatt sites, gigawatt sites." - @MattLoszak, CEO & cofounder of Aalo Atomics, at Dreamforce 2026.

"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.

Aalo is at @NAIA Forum in Washington D.C., Sep 16. NAIA convenes leading builders, founders, investors, policymakers, manufacturers, and public officials to support American industrialism. Aalo is the factory nuclear company: we believe in a strong, vertically integrated supply chain and industrial base, including creating hundreds of jobs for American workers this year. See you there!

This Administration, with the President’s focus on common sense deregulation, energy dominance, and onshoring supply chains, was uniquely positioned, and had the political appetite and ability, to take on the seemingly intractable problems across the nuclear supply chain that no one had dared tackle before. The President’s executive orders were ambitious in scope and urgency, adopting a whole-of-government approach to restore a functional civilian nuclear industry from near complete atrophy like only this Administration could, empowering agency officials to do what needed to be done at all levels. The Reactor Pilot Program is just one example of this effort’s success. It was an honor and a privilege to serve alongside the talented people across the government who worked to draft those executive orders and to implement them, and I’m cheering on the many dedicated individuals who are still in the government continuing to make extraordinary progress every day. Also thrilled that our private sector has risen to the occasion and looking forward to seeing what they do next. More to come! It’s a great time to love nuclear and building things. @eventidia @SecretaryWright @NRCgov @ENERGY @WHOSTP47 @mkratsios47 @Waksman84 @n_m_gallagher @OverReactor1776 @LSJRobinson @jordanbramble @MattLoszak @isaiah_p_taylor @DeployableE @john_c_wagner

Aalo is at the @theallinpod Summit in Los Angeles, showcasing nuclear power plants for data centers. Nuclear solves today's AI and data center power needs with rapidly deployable, site-flexible power infrastructure. See you there, Sep 13-15!

The real goal of US nuclear startups should be to surpass Japan Steel Works in total GW deployed. They hold the record for most GW of nuclear hardware shipped from a single factory. >130 GW lifetime, 50 years, often 4 vessels / yr ~= 4 GW / yr.

Austin Deep Tech is going to be awesome. There's factory tours every day, hardware showcases, parties almost every day. It's probably the best chance to get up to speed to everything deep tech that's cooking in Austin.

"The cost of a product is entirely dependent on the process that builds it. Every single decision was geared toward a reactor that is optimal for manufacturability, assembly, and transportability... we transport everything in modules: shipping-container-sized boxes packed with the equipment that builds up our power plant. On site, they come together like Lego blocks. You connect the structural, piping, and electrical interfaces, snap them together, and you get a power plant stood up in a matter of months, not years or decades." @yasir_fission, @theCUBE + @NYSEWired: Powering Tomorrow

Zirconium is nearly transparent to neutrons, which makes it the perfect metal to clad nuclear fuel. But it has an evil twin, and the two are the closest pair of elements in the periodic table. In every ore on Earth, zirconium comes locked together with hafnium. Hafnium absorbs neutrons six hundred times more than zirconium does, which is enough to ruin the economics of a nuclear reactor. Hafnium is so identical to zirconium that for decades no process could separate them. Hafnium sits directly below zirconium on the periodic table, so it should be a bigger atom, but on the way there you pass through the 14 lanthanides, each adding a proton to the nucleus and an electron to a buried 4f orbital that barely shields the outer shell. The extra nuclear pull shrinks the atom by almost exactly the amount the new shell added. This identical size and charge makes these two elements very similar chemically, which is why separating them is so hard. But in the late 1940s, government chemists worked out liquid-liquid extraction schemes that could finally pry the two apart at industrial scale. Zirconium alloys as a result have become a nuclear standard, and today every commercial water-cooled reactor on Earth wraps its fuel in zirconium that has been purified in this way. And the leftover hafnium still has a use in some reactors... in control rods, to intentionally stop the chain reaction!

Strengthening the US-UK ties in nuclear. This week I am in London as part of a US delegation in advanced nuclear to UK. Got to hear from the UK Minister of Energy today and chat with Mr. Varun Chandra, Prime Minister’s Chief Business, Investment and Trade advisor