Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, December 8th.

Today on Forbes, how AI is ushering in a new nuclear age.

At ALO Atomac's 40,000 square foot factory on the south side of Austin, Texas, workers move

5 eighths inch thick steel plates onto machines that slowly bend and roll them into

12-foot-wide cylinders, which they then weld into 25-foot-tall vessels.

These could be made cheaper by outside contractors.

But Allo co-founder and CEO Matt Lozac wants to do this work in-house,

since each vessel will eventually contain the guts of a 10-Magawatt

nuclear fission reactor. Five of these Allo-1 reactor units, working in tandem, will power a

single 50-Magawatt electric turbine, enough juice to run a large data processing center, or 45,000

homes. Lozac, a 35-year-, or 45,000 homes.

Lozac, a 35-year-old Canadian engineer, now on his third startup, declares, quote,

it's not a paper reactor, it's getting built.

In August, Allo broke ground on a two-acre site at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, where it aims to

achieve so-called criticality by July 4, 26, America's 250th birthday, and the deadline President

Donald Trump has set for at least three U.S. startups to prove that their advanced nuclear reactor

designs work. To achieve criticality, Allo will load a vessel

with off-the-shelf nuclear fuel rod assemblies and then initiate a self-sustaining nuclear fission

chain reaction. As for producing electricity, that comes later. Even after achieving criticality,

Allo will still need to build out manufacturing

and a supply chain of vendors, sign data center customers, and get final approval from the

Nuclear Regulatory Commission. LOSAC is shopping for up to 1 million square feet for a gigafactory,

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