Nuclear Start The earthly energy goes public via SPAC, with the merger of $ 280 million

The earthly energy, a small nuclear start, merged with a acquisition company on Wednesday.

The North Carolina -based company is developing small modular reactors and expects to clean $ 280 million from the deal. Before the SPAC merger, Terrestrial energy It had raised $ 94 million, according to the Pitchbook. The combined entity expects to record Nasdaq with the IMSR symbol.

The ticker is a reference to the taste of the earthly energy of the small articulated reactor (SMR), which it calls an integral reactor of melted salt. In such a device, the uranium fuel is mixed with various salts, such as lithium fluoride or sodium fluoride, which serve to suspend nuclear fuel and act as its main refrigerant reactor.

The core of the earth’s energy reactor is designed to replace entirely every seven years, partly to proceed with some of the problems previously had reactors with melted salt facing erosion. The core of the reactor includes not only the fuel and graphite configurants that regulate the speed of the fission reactions, but also the heat exchangers and the pumps that keep the salt cool and flows.

The start is aimed at a range of markets, including electricity, data centers and industrial applications that require heat.

There are many existing proposals for building a commercial -scale reactor, but to date, no one has been manufactured. Basic technology invented in the 1950s, but two experiments from that time were plagued with problems.

Nuclear power has received refurbished attention as the electricity of buildings and transport, coupled with the rapid development of data centers, has sent the rise of electricity demand.

Technology companies are increasingly interested in technology as a possible solution to the electricity requirements of the training and conclusions of AI. Google Altman, Meta, Amazon and Openai have chosen a horse in the race to develop advanced nuclear reactors.

Land energy is not the first SMR start to SPAC-Oklo supported by Altman completed its deal in 2024-and gave the current advertising campaign around nuclear power, it is likely that it will not be the last.