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Why a microreactor
Which loads it fits, and what each buyer pays now: Applications.
Where the argument fails
What a 1–20-megawatt reactor could power
Who could buy one and at what price it wins them, the remote places where it would replace diesel, and the loads in each sector. Load figures are rough yearly needs for early planning; sizing a real project takes a year of hourly data.
Opportunities across Alaska
| Site / buyer | Sector | Buyer model | Load / size | Status |
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Priced contracts and funded precedents
| Deal | Parties | Instrument | Size | Price | Date |
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Where Alaska's power comes from
Who you'd actually be selling to
Rules that matter
What the power costs
No microreactor has sold power yet, so every number here is an estimate. The bands are wide because sources disagree about what the first units will cost to build.
Use this chart to rule markets out, not to set a price. First-unit estimates overlap expensive diesel; they do not compete with ordinary grid power. The Alaska case is shown separately because it is an unusually high-cost diesel system, not a general tariff.
Units: source-reported currency per megawatt-hour. U.S. dollars marks sources that state the currency; source $ means the source uses a dollar sign but does not identify the currency. Dollar years are not published or normalized, so compare scale, not exchange-rate precision. Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) spreads estimated lifetime cost across estimated lifetime electricity output. First-of-a-kind (FOAK) is the first commercial build; nth-of-a-kind (NOAK) is a later factory-series build after learning and repetition.
What people pay today
Companies to watch
The roster includes the five Janus awardees, Valar, and other companies with a public reactor milestone or named project. It is a research list, not a ranking.
Rules and deal design
Rules decide what a project may do. Deal design decides who takes first-unit cost and schedule risk. Rows marked idea are proposals, not law.
What utilities have filed
Shared orderbook and overrun pool
Precedents
What happened
Sources and gaps
Every source used on this site, and how complete each part of the data is. Three fields stay thin because search engines do not index regulators' docket systems.
About this site
A map of potential 1–20-megawatt reactor sales: buyers, power costs, rules, and deal structures. Sources include regulatory filings, federal award records, utility rates, and company disclosures.
A field reading not found means the research did not find it. Blanks are left blank.
Visual language from the Antares design system.