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Trump Hosts Nuclear Startup CEOs as Reactors Reach Criticality

7/25/2026

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U.S. President Donald Trump will host the CEOs of Antares Nuclear, Deployable Energy, Aalo Atomics and Valar Atomics at the White House on Friday to showcase their reactors reaching criticality.
The CEOs will meet the president in the Oval Office after their reactors achieved criticality.
A White House official said the reactors are the first privately-funded, non-light-water advanced reactors to turn on in more than four decades.

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U.S. President Donald Trump will host the CEOs of Antares Nuclear, Deployable Energy, Aalo Atomics and Valar Atomics at the White House on Friday to showcase their reactors reaching criticality.
The CEOs will meet the president in the Oval Office after their reactors achieved criticality.
A White House official said the reactors are the first privately-funded, non-light-water advanced reactors to turn on in more than four decades.