.@AaloAtomics designed its nuclear reactor to fit on a truck. That constraint shapes the vessel, the machines that build it, and the supply chain behind it.
Chapter 2 of my visit to @AaloAtomics' Austin pilot factory.
0:00 A reactor that fits on a truck
0:24 Water jets and vessel size
0:55 Designing around existing machines
1:22 Rolling and welding the vessel
1:49 CNC machining
2:03 Thin steel and shorter lead times
2:45 Inside the pilot factory
3:10 Supply chains and "no unobtainium"
3:59 Designing for manufacturing
4:10 Next: liquid sodium
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.@AaloAtomics @MattLoszak is trying to manufacture nuclear power plants as repeatable products instead of building every plant as a one-off megaproject. Its proposed commercial Aalo Pod combines five 10 MWe sodium-cooled reactors into a 50 MWe plant designed for data centers.
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