In short: Aalo's rival; "notched an even more ambitious milestone" by demonstrating full temperature and power conversion (FTPC) and signing a contract to provide 30 MW of atomic power to one of Nvidia's data centers. Positioned in SMRs (reactors "at least five times larger" than Aalo's micros). Caveat: NRC licensing "typically measured in years," so its "laudable and impressive" lead "could well diminish or outright vanish over the course of months-long NRC approval testing."
Valar is a private rival to Aalo building "small modular reactors" (SMRs) — still factory-built, but roughly five times larger than Aalo's microreactors. It hit an even more advanced milestone ("full temperature and power conversion," i.e. it actually produced usable power at operating temperature) and, crucially, signed a real commercial deal: 30 megawatts of nuclear power to run one of Nvidia's data centers. That contract is the tell in the whole post — it shows AI data-center operators starting to buy nuclear power directly, which is why Hay reads nuclear as beginning to supplement or replace natural gas as the fuel behind the AI build-out. The catch he stresses: getting a reactor licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission takes years, so Valar's head start could shrink or disappear during the long approval process — a lead on the engineering isn't yet a lead in the market. Private, so not directly investable.
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