How the Project Pele Microreactor Works

Podcast: The Innovation Attorney Podcast · The Innovation Attorney

Opublikowano: 2026-10-11

Pele is a transportable, high temperature, gas cooled reactor rated at 1.5 megawatts of electricity, fueled with 40,000 TRISO compacts that reached Idaho on November 5, 2025. It operates under Department of Energy authorization, outside Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing. The prime contract, reported at about $300 million in June 2022, bought a prototype that now carries a three year schedule slip. In August 2023 the program manager stated a goal of a running reactor at Idaho before the end of 2025. In late summer 2026 BWXT crews installed the core barrel in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the reactor has not yet shipped. Anyone planning a remote site...