{"id":228761,"date":"2026-01-10T23:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/dawn-of-a-new-era-a-us-nuclear-company-becomes-first-ever-startup-to-achieve-cold-criticality"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:28:26","slug":"dawn-of-a-new-era-a-us-nuclear-company-becomes-first-ever-startup-to-achieve-cold-criticality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/dawn-of-a-new-era-a-us-nuclear-company-becomes-first-ever-startup-to-achieve-cold-criticality","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDawn Of A New Era\u201d: A US Nuclear Company Becomes First Ever Startup To Achieve Cold Criticality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dawn-of-a-new-era-a-us-nuclear-company-becomes-first-ever-startup-to-achieve-cold-criticality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump asked industry and the labs to make nuclear great again. We got together and decided to start with the basics of fission. This team delivered incredible results safely so we can keep moving up the technical ladder,\u201d commented Max Ukropina, Head of Projects at Valar Atomics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica should be thrilled, but wanting more,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPresident Trump asked industry and the labs to make nuclear great again. We got together and decided to start with the basics of fission. This team delivered incredible results safely so we can keep moving up the technical ladder,\u201d commented Max Ukropina, Head of Projects at Valar Atomics. \u201cAmerica should be thrilled, but wanting more,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}