OrganiCore is developing the OC-80, an 80 MWe advanced small modular reactor designed to compete on cost. The design draws on established nuclear technology, mature industrial coolant, and existing supply chains.
The team are renowned experts in reactor design, licensing, and construction.
Cost is a central design driver for the OC-80.
The OC-80 is being designed around the factors utilities actually weigh: price, time to first power, unit size, and the ability to scale. At multi-unit sites, shared infrastructure and equipment are expected to improve economics as capacity grows.
Rather than setting performance first and discovering cost later, the OC-80 is being designed around commercial viability from the start. A fixed cost-of-ownership quote is expected to give utilities greater clarity before committing to construction.
Each OC-80 is being designed to provide 80 MWe of capacity, allowing utilities to phase investment and generation as demand grows rather than financing a gigawatt-scale project upfront.
Our organic coolant is a mature industrial heat-transfer fluid. The plant is being designed around conventional equipment.
Organic thermal fluids have moved high-grade heat through refineries and petrochemical plants for decades, with established suppliers, standards, and a long operating record. Earlier nuclear applications also include 20 years of organic-cooled reactor operation.
The reactor is being designed to use commercially available low-enriched uranium (LEU), keeping fuel procurement within the existing nuclear fuel market and avoiding dependence on difficult-to-source high-assay LEU (HALEU).
The OC-80’s low-pressure design is intended to reduce stored energy and simplify primary-system equipment and operations compared with conventional light-water reactors.
Pumps, turbines, piping, controls, materials, and other major plant equipment are being adapted from existing industrial and nuclear supply chains, with much of the capability already available in North America today.
Firm, affordable electricity creates room for new industry, infrastructure, and economic expansion.
Data centers, advanced manufacturing, and industry are driving demand for firm power. We intend to build each OC-80 with North American suppliers and workforces already in place, bringing long-term skilled jobs and investment to the communities that host our manufacturing.
From MIT, the NRC, and decades of plant engineering and construction, OrganiCore’s people have done reactor design, licensing, and construction before.
CEO and co-founder
Aaron co-founded Longview Fusion and brings experience in hard-tech company building, fundraising, and infrastructure commercialization.
CTO and co-founder
MIT nuclear engineer; leads the MIT reactor design and cost-modeling programs whose AP1000 and SMR work is a reference point for nuclear construction cost and schedule.
Advisory board chair and co-founder
Professor of Nuclear Engineering, MIT; member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering; reactor safety, thermal hydraulics, advanced reactor systems, nuclear technology policy.
Engineering lead
President and Principal Engineer at Dominion Engineering; led projects at more than eighty plants worldwide.
Vice president of regulatory affairs
Regulatory lead; spent seventeen years at the NRC and later served as Fuels Director at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).
Vice president of project management and construction
Four decades of leadership roles in project management, engineering, construction, and quality assurance, at both operating nuclear power plants, and plants under construction.
