Aalo Atomics Becomes First U.S. Nuclear Reactor Company with Contract for Uranium

Aalo Atomics, a company building fully modular nuclear plants to power modern AI data centers (XMRs), signed a contract in July 2025 to become the first U.S. advanced nuclear reactor company to accept the commercial delivery of enriched uranium. The fuel will be delivered by Urenco no later than the first quarter of 2026 and will pave the way for criticality of Aalo-X, which could be the first advanced reactor capable of producing power built in the U.S. in over a generation.

“The enriched uranium being supplied to Aalo by Urenco is an exciting catalyst on our path to criticality in 2026. Not only is the uranium available immediately, but it is also completely scalable, providing us with the ability to deploy Aalo Pods for data centers again and again at gigawatt scale, keeping pace with demand,” said Yasir Arafat, CTO, Aalo Atomics.

In the past few months, the Aalo-X experimental power plant started the Conceptual Design Review involving over 40 experts, secured official site allocation from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho Operations Office (DOE-ID), and received an Environmental Assessment Determination from the DOE, which expedites the environmental review process.