NANO Nuclear Energy has announced it will be compensated to conduct a feasibility study for siting multiple KRONOS Micro Modular Reactor units, targeting up to 1 gigawatt of installed capacity, at BaRupOn’s Liberty American Multi-Sourced Power and Innovation Hub currently under development in Liberty, Texas.
The feasibility assessment will cover projected power demand, requirements for reactor integration, and physical suitability of the Liberty site—including land availability and access—for deploying several KRONOS MMR units. BaRupOn plans to directly compensate NANO Nuclear for completing this evaluation.
The hub, known as LAMP, is a 701-acre advanced facility designed to support manufacturing, artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, robotics, autonomous systems, advanced materials, and industrial research and development. According to BaRupOn, deploying multiple microreactors on-site would establish a dedicated, always-on, emission-free nuclear power source for high-density compute and industrial operations, reducing dependence on constrained regional power grids for large-scale data center uptime.
The KRONOS MMR is a high-temperature, gas-cooled microreactor using helium coolant and TRISO particle fuel. The reactor is designed for modular, co-locatable deployment from single units to multi-reactor clusters with gigawatt-scale potential, supporting industrial campuses and data center applications. The design prioritizes inherent safety and operational reliability for high-availability, demanding facilities.
BaRupOn has noted its willingness to co-invest in microreactor construction at the LAMP campus following a successful study outcome, citing grid congestion, lengthy interconnection queues, accelerated growth in GPU-driven computing, and baseload power requirements as key drivers. In relation to this, Derek Matthews, Chief Strategy Officer at BaRupOn LLC, states, “AI and data center growth are outpacing grid expansion nationwide,” adding, “We believe microreactors are the only realistic pathway to protecting our operational continuity while scaling to meet future demand.”
James Walker, Chief Executive Officer of NANO Nuclear, comments on the technical fit between microreactors and hyper-dense compute infrastructure: “This collaboration represents one of the most exciting strategic opportunities in NANO Nuclear’s history and gives us a valuable opportunity to demonstrate how many KRONOS MMR units can integrate into large, multi-use campuses with substantial and continuous power requirements.”
NANO Nuclear highlights its intent to serve the North American data center industry, emphasizing that few developers are positioned to address the urgent scaling and reliability needs of hyperscale digital infrastructure with advanced nuclear power.
Source: NANO Nuclear Energy
