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The vendor, Oklo, was in the YC S14 batch and plans to go public in the next quarter or two

https://www.reuters.com/article/oklo-m-a-altc-acquisition/nu...

Through a SPAC after their application to license their design was denied by the NRC, and the responses seem very immature. Does not inspire confidence.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/nrc-denies-oklo-powers-plan...

Oklo, what a clever name.

Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African country of Gabon. Several natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in the uranium mines in the region in 1972.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo

I assumed the natural reactors might still be fissioning, but the Wikipedia page says this occurred about 1.7B years ago. They know they were reactors because the cite has a lower concentration of uranium-235 than expected and also reaction by-products.

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ugh

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