About Us
Who We Are
NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. is an emerging microreactor technology company led by a world class nuclear engineering team developing smaller, cheaper and safer advanced portable carbon free energy solutions utilizing proprietary novel reactor designs. NANO Nuclear is committed to incorporating the latest technology into its own proprietary novel reactor designs, intellectual properties, and research methods. NANO Nuclear’s subsidiary, HALEU Energy Fuel Inc., will focus on the future development of a domestic source for a High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) fuel fabrication pipeline for the broader advanced nuclear reactor industry and providing fuel to power NANO Nuclear reactors. NANO Nuclear’s products in technical development are “ZEUS”, a solid core battery reactor, and “ODIN”, a low-pressure coolant reactor, each of which represent advanced developments in portable, on-demand capable, advanced nuclear micro reactors.
About Us
Nuclear Technical Team
James Walker, BEng, MSc, CEng, PEng –
Head of Nuclear Reactor Development
James Walker’s professional engineering experience includes nuclear reactors, mines, submarines, chemical plants, factories, mine processing facilities, infrastructure, automotive machinery, and testing rigs…
Ian Farnan, Ph.D.
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Lead of Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Radiation and Materials
Chair of Cambridge Nuclear Energy Centre, Professor of Earth & Nuclear Materials part of Department of Earth Sciences. Dr. Farnan is an expert in the effect of nuclear radiation on materials and has developed nuclear magnetic resonance methods to provide an element specific probe…
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News & Stories
NANO Nuclear Energy Appoints Former DOE Office of Nuclear Energy Professional, Michelle Amante-Harstine, as the Senior Strategic Advisor to NANO Nuclear’s Executive Advisory Board for U.S. Energy Initiatives
In collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory, company looks to build fuel fabrication facility to integrate with its innovative advanced portable nuclear microreactor...
IN MEMORY OF our Friend and Supporter, Secretary & Governor William B. Richardson
NANO Nuclear Energy is deeply saddened at the loss of a respected national patriot and Chairman of our Executive Advisory Board, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, U.N. Ambassador...
NANO Nuclear Energy Advances Fuel Fabrication Facility Ambitions with Key U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Submission
In collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory, company looks to build fuel fabrication facility to integrate with its innovative advanced portable nuclear microreactor...
Our Vision
NANO Nuclear Energy is looking to enter the µSMR market by focusing on designing its own nano nuclear reactors which could be deployed to remote locations to provide energy to residential, commercial, major mining, industrial, shipping, oil and gas, military, medical use and construction projects. Additionally, the Company has the bandwidth to invest in optimization research for µSMRs, and seeks collaborative partnerships to which it can deploy financing, provide personnel, and advance technology and development opportunities.
NANO Nuclear Energy intends to progress its collaborative research projects towards development, rigs and models, zero-power reactors, and ultimately towards reactor manufacture and deployments. The Company envisions readily replaceable mobile reactors which it can provide to customers, along with operative personnel, to power projects, residential and commercial enterprises, and major development projects.
“SMRs offer a range of different benefits which complement large reactors. Given their size, small reactors are well-suited for remote areas and in grids that are too small to host a gigawatt-scale nuclear reactor.”
“A further benefit of SMRs is the prospect of so-called modularity, with most, if not all, components of the reactors being manufactured and assembled in a factory before being shipped to a site to be installed.”
Introducing ZEUS – NANO Nuclear Portable Advanced Micro Reactor
Featuring a fully solid core, removing heat through thermal conduction, eliminating the need for coolant and pumps. The reactor utilizes the simplest design with the least moving components and ensures the immobilization of fission products. ZEUS represents the future evolution of µSMRs and nuclear energy generation. The novel compact design will fit within an ISO container, taking advantage of the existing transportation infrastructure to allow for easier shipping and delivery to customers. The reactor will be modular and able to connect with local power grids or power systems, so multiple reactors can be deployed to an area.
µSMRs produce between 1 and 20 megawatts of thermal energy that could be used directly as heat or converted to electric power. Generating clean and reliable electricity for commercial use or for non-electric applications such as district heating, water desalination and hydrogen fuel production, µSMRs are a highly adaptable and portable alternative to traditional nuclear reactors.
Imagine enough power to support over 500 homes per NANO Nuclear reactor for 20 years
Seamlessly integrable with renewables within microgrids
Can be seamlessly used for emergency responses
Seamlessly removable from sites and exchanged for new ones
*Artist rendition of a prototype design. May not represent eventual design of revolutionary NANO reactor.