It also said the "estimated investment amount is also within the framework of the value of the economic study of the JEK2 project, prepared by GEN energija in 2024" - these ranged from EUR9.314 billion (USD10.1 billion) for a 1000 MW unit and up to EUR15.371 billion for a 1650 MW unit.

There’s less than 300 days until 10 companies will supposedly have constructed and achieved criticality of 11 first of a kind reactors by July 4, 2026. Here’s the current, publicly available, status of those companies/projects:

• Aalo Atomics: raised $100 million in series B funding; broke ground on their 50 MWe Aalo-X site in Idaho.

• Antares Nuclear: allocated HALEU fuel from the DOE; no reactor construction updates.

• Atomic Alchemy: no updates.

• Deep Fission: raised $30 million in a reverse merger with a SPAC to go public; no reactor construction updates.

• Last Energy: no updates.

• Natura Resources: allocated HALEU fuel from the DOE; no reactor construction updates. Note: unsure if their project is the reactor they already have a construction permit for through the NRC or if a different reactor design where they bypass NRC approval in this program.

• Oklo (named for two projects): announced a fuel ‘recycling’ (did they mean reprocessing?) facility in Tennessee; no reactor construction updates for either project.

• Radiant Industries: announced an agreement to deliver a microreactor to the US military; no reactor construction updates.

• Terrestrial Energy: announced a new headquarters office; no reactor construction updates.

• Valar Atomics: no updates.

Appears to be a slow start if only one of these projects has broken ground with less than 10 months to go. Will these companies still be able to bypass NRC approval if they don’t deliver on time?