Valar Atomics raised $130 million with participation from Anduril Industries founder Palmer Luckey and Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar. Valar is developing reactor technology that uses ...

A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it’s the first to do so—but it had some help. It’s also, more ...

A small US nuclear startup has quietly crossed a threshold that most young fission companies only talk about, achieving a self-sustaining chain reaction in a test system without ever boiling water or ...

Anduril Industries Inc. founder Palmer Luckey, a Lockheed Martin Corp. board member, Palantir Technology Inc.’s Shyam Sankar and other investors are putting $130 million into Valar Atomics, a nuclear ...

Valar Atomics may not be the first startup to split an atom, but it did achieve cold criticality—a self-sustaining nuclear reaction. An advanced nuclear startup just achieved a milestone as it races ...

The startup’s achievement is impressive but underscores the quiet chaos of the nuclear industry following a series of sweeping executive orders in May. Reading time 3 minutes In May, a series of ...

A California-based nuclear startup has reached a hallowed milestone that could accelerate the development of more sustainable energy sources. Per Interesting Engineering, Valar Atomics announced it ...

The company said its NOVA Core achieved zero-power criticality at LANL's National Criticality Experiments Research Center on 17 November. (Image: Valar Atomics/X) Valar said it is collaborating with ...

Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright, center, and Under Secretary of Defense Michael Duffey, left, speak with Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valar Atomics, in February 2026. AP Photo / Matthew Daly But those rules ...

El Segundo-based Valar Atomics has closed a $130 million Series A funding round, led by Snowpoint Ventures with co-leads Day One and Dream. Balerion, Contrary, DTX, Alumni, Crosscut, Triplepoint, ...

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