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US Portable Microreactor Developer Chooses Oak Ridge Site For ‘World First’ Factory

By David Dalton
14 October 2025

Radiant says it is on track to produce first Kaleidos nuclear unit by 2028

US Portable Microreactor Developer Chooses Oak Ridge Site For ‘World First’ Factory
The 1-MW Kaleidos microreactor will be produced at the planned R-50 factory in Tennessee. Courtesy Radiant.
A US company developing a portable, mass-produced nuclear microreactor has chosen the former Manhattan Project site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as the location to build what it says will be the first factory in the world to mass-produce nuclear power plants.

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