The summer of 2024 has been a memorable period for Boston Atomics with several noteworthy events: · In June, we had the opportunity to participate in the ANS conference. We were part of an entire session dedicated to the DOE-funded horizontal HTGR project. We presented our work alongside four other teams, each contributing to different aspects of the project. Seeing all the components of the project come together was like solving a complex puzzle, bringing us a sense of achievement and happiness once completed. https://lnkd.in/dfiYjMGS · The horizontal HTGR DOE-funded project has been a remarkable journey for us over the past three years. We’ve come to understand that the success of Advanced Reactor Technology relies on a robust, capable, and comprehensive industry. It’s challenging for a single company to excel in every facet of this field. As a result, we’ve decided to expand our focus beyond developing our own reactor concept. We’re now collaborating with other institutions and offering consulting and R&D services in areas that support the AR industry. · We’ve initiated a blog (with the second post already published in https://lnkd.in/dr6kTify) and had the privilege of being featured on Decouple to share our perspective on ARs. A special shoutout to Chris Keefer MD for hosting us in https://lnkd.in/dTT3aUBh. We firmly believe that for this industry to thrive, insiders like us need to voice our thoughts on the current state of affairs, future directions, challenges, and opportunities.
Boston Atomics
Nuclear Electric Power Generation
Boston, MA 807 followers
Boston Atomics aims to decarbonize the industrial process heat market with safe, easy to build nuclear power.
About us
Boston Atomics is solving the construction cost challenge in the nuclear industry with an innovative design strategy. Building on the high TRL of high-temperature-gas-reactor technology, with a design for constructability approach, we are bringing high temperature nuclear heat to the industrial process heat market to decarbonize plastics, chemicals, fertilizers, and more.
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- Industry
- Nuclear Electric Power Generation
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
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Boston, MA, US
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Steven Jepeal is #hiring. Know anyone who might be interested?
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2023 was full of patents and partnerships for Boston Atomics! Here are a few highlights: • May: Spoke at the ARPA-E Nuclear Heat Workshop • June: Started the Activate Fellowship • July: Provisional patent for our refueling machine • Oct: Creative Destruction Lab Session 1 • Nov: USPTO grants MIGHTR patent to BA • Dec: Started BRAINS at Speculative Technologies GAIN Voucher awarded at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Can't wait to see what's in store for 2024!
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2023 was full of patents and partnerships for Boston Atomics! Here are a few highlights: • May: Spoke at the ARPA-E Nuclear Heat Workshop • June: Started the Activate Fellowship • July: Provisional patent for our refueling machine • Oct: Creative Destruction Lab Session 1 • Nov: USPTO grants MIGHTR patent to BA • Dec: Started BRAINS at Speculative Technologies GAIN Voucher awarded at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Can't wait to see what's in store for 2024!
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Exciting to see how the MIGHTR is shaping. Thak you WNE - World Nuclear Exhibition
About a month ago, I was impressed by the great organization and affluence at the WNE - World Nuclear Exhibition event in Paris. Congratulations to WNE for hosting the largest nuclear industry-wide exhibition in history. This gave me the opportunity to have many conversations and make great connections with people and companies selling and developing key technologies for the MIGHTR. It was particularly enticing to speak about Helical Coil Steam Generators with Roberta Ferri and Andrea Achilli from SIET S.p.A., which ran tests for an SMR project in the past. Helical Coil Steam Generators are one of the design options for the Steam Generator, along with a compact heat exchanger design. Likewise, it was encouraging to speak with David Budd about how Konecranes is helping the entire nuclear industry with their cranes and other lifting/transporting solutions. I was amazed by the breadth of applications that solutions from Konecranes have in SMRs and in the MIGHTR design. It was great to explore many other technological applications to the MIGHTR project with other possible suppliers/collaborators, such as in-core instrumentation with Shyang Puri from RdF and crawler robots with Andrew Lawrence from Deep Trekker Inc. I would like to acknowledge these and many other interesting conversations and possibilities for collaboration here, which reassure me of my optimistic view about the MIGHTR technology and Boston Atomics.
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Excited to announce Boston Atomics was awarded our first GAIN voucher. We are eager to work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on the robotic systems that help enable our design-to-build architecture.
Congratulations to the latest GAIN nuclear energy voucher awardees! Vouchers allow awardees to leverage the expertise and research capabilities at select U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories to further advance their projects toward commercial deployment. Help us to congratulate the 7 voucher awardee companies. ⚛️ Westinghouse Electric Company will work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory ⚛️ SHINE Technologies will partner with Argonne National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories ⚛️ Aalo Atomics will collaborate with the Idaho National Laboratory ⚛️ ARC Clean Technology will work with Argonne National Laboratory ⚛️ Global Nuclear Fuels will partner with Argonne National Laboratory ⚛️ Boston Atomics will collaborate with Oak Ridge National Laboratory ⚛️ Energy Northwest will work with Argonne National Laboratory Learn more about the voucher projects here: https://brnw.ch/21wFs8O
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CEO W. Robbie Stewart had a great time at the 2023 American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting! Lots of interesting conversations on modularization, construction costs, and the NRC. Highlight was a session hosted by Nuclear Innovation Alliance's Patrick White discussing advanced reactor licensing strategies!
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Our CTO Enrique Vélez spent an amazing day in Rome at the event “All Roads Lead to Rome: Nuclear Role in the Energy Transition Era” hosted by the Rome Advanced District in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thank you to our advisor Roberto Casula for organizing it!
Energy Industry Team Leader, Hydrogen Practice Co-Leader, Leading Member of International Nuclear Practice, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
I was so thrilled and honored to give a keynote yesterday addressing global nuclear developments at “All Roads Lead to Rome: Nuclear Role in the Energy Transition Era” hosted by the Rome Advanced District in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino Energy Center and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Grazie mille to Roberto Casula for the invitation and flawless organization of a truly inspiring day! 🇮🇹Of course, the biggest takeaway was that we’re talking about #nuclearenergy in Rome! 📢Yes, Italy has some way to go to gain public support for nuclear energy, but there are pro-nuclear voices in Parliament and the administration. 💡Importantly, I learned about the deep capabilities of the Italian nuclear supply chain. Did you know that Italian industry can fully support the deployment of at least 6 SMRs today?! 🎧 I could listen all day every day to MIT’s Jacopo Buongiorno on nuclear technologies. And even after all this time, I’m still amazed at the energy density of nuclear. 3kg of uranium235 / day - I don’t even have a dumbbell that small - to power the city of Boston. 🤯 ✅ Great fact check on nuclear myths by Marco Ricotti. An average person produces a rhino’s 🦏 worth of waste a day, while radioactive waste is the size of a mouse! 🐭 🇸🇪 And probably the most inspiring presentation was by Kärnfull Energi (SE)’s John Ahlberg - an ingenious and highly successful concept of delivering 100% nuclear energy via Guarantees of Origin issued by Swedish nuclear plants to consumers in Sweden and Denmark. And Kärnfull Next (KNXT) is planning to build SMRs in Sweden, with the first site announced at Studsvik! Ci vediamo presto, Italia, and hope to see progress soon on the re-adoption of nuclear in this great country.