All Roads Lead to
Thorium Atomics
A modular high-temperature reactor platform delivering ~100 MWe firm power and 750°C industrial heat from a single 220 MWth core, with an embedded medical-isotope option. Built for energy sovereignty and American re-industrialization.
“We’ve just made a fifty-quadrillion-dollar discovery.”— Glenn T. Seaborg, to John Gofman, upon discovering thorium’s conversion to fissile uranium-233, 1942. Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1951. Chairman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1961–1971.
One Core.
Firm Dispatchable Power
~100 MWe via combined cycle from a single 220 MWth core. Clean, firm, baseload electricity that runs 24/7 regardless of weather — the highest-margin power product on the grid. No intermittency. No storage required.
Industrial Process Heat
Steel, cement, ammonia, hydrogen, chemicals. The backbone of industrial civilization requires continuous heat above 400°C. No scalable clean solution exists today. The Tesseract TGR delivers 750°C helium directly to industry.
The Thorium Dividend
Most reactors produce spent fuel treated as a liability. Ours accumulates Thorium-229, the precursor to Actinium-225, a radioisotope being studied for targeted cancer therapy. The physics are embedded. The option compounds with every hour of operation.
We Walked Away.
The Mobilization Gap
While the U.S. rested on its declassified research, China made thorium a national imperative. In 2024, Beijing successfully operated the world’s first thorium-to-uranium conversion reactor. They have secured a 60,000-year supply of thorium and are aggressively scaling commercial deployment with 100% domestically-produced components.
The United States does not have a knowledge gap. We have a strategic mobilization gap. Zero operating thorium reactors. No domestic thorium fuel fabrication. Continued reliance on foreign enrichment for 97% of our uranium supply.
This is not a competition over electricity. China already has plenty of that.
Built for Power. Designed for Sovereignty.
The Tesseract TGR is a 220 MWth pebble-bed reactor cooled by helium and fueled by TRISO, the most robust fuel form in nuclear engineering. Each fuel particle is its own microscopic containment vessel, rated to 1,600°C+.
Via combined cycle, the platform converts to ~100 MWe of firm, dispatchable electricity. It simultaneously delivers 750°C outlet temperature for direct industrial heat to steel mills, chemical plants, hydrogen production facilities, and data center campuses.
Negative Temperature Coefficient
As temperature rises, reactivity drops. The physics won’t allow runaway.
TRISO Micro-Containment
Every fuel particle is its own containment vessel. SiC barrier rated to 1,600°C+.
Passive Heat Removal
Natural conduction and radiation. No pumps. No operator action. No external power.
Helium Coolant
Chemically inert. Single phase. No hydrogen pathway. No zirconium-steam risk.
No One Has Solved
Physics-Linked Upside
Ac-225 accumulation is a non-extractive byproduct of our primary heat cycle. It is not modeled in our base case. We treat it as embedded optionality, unlocked only with a permitted processing pathway and GMP-compliant supply chain.
Global supply of Ac-225 is severely constrained relative to projected clinical demand. A fleet of thorium reactors accumulates Th-229 inventory over decades of normal operation, creating a long-dated call option that compounds with time.
That Can’t Be Bolted On
No HALEU Dependency
Most advanced reactor designs require High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium, a supply chain that does not yet exist at commercial scale. We launch on standard LEU available from domestic suppliers today.
Highest Outlet Temperature
750°C enables direct industrial heat delivery. Conventional reactors operate at 300°C. Sodium-cooled designs reach ~500°C. The gap between 500 and 750 is where heavy industry operates.
Domestic Fuel Sovereignty
Thorium is 3–4x more abundant than uranium with massive, untapped American reserves. As our fuel cycle matures, dependence on foreign enrichment supply chains approaches zero.
Isotope Optionality
The thorium fuel cycle is the only pathway that produces Th-229 as a natural byproduct, the parent isotope for Ac-225. This requires purpose-built physics, not a retrofit.
Time-Based Moat
Th-229 accumulates over decades of reactor operation. Even if a competitor started today on thorium, they would be decades behind in stockpile accumulation. Time is the barrier.
Capital Markets. Execution.
Young Hwang
Ex-RBC Capital Markets. Built and scaled energy fintech. Capital markets experience and strategic vision for the thorium economy.
David Kerr
Founder, Algonquin Power. Scaled a multi-billion dollar energy platform. Deep governance and strategic advisory experience.
Dr. Jack Vecchiarelli
Ex-OPG VP. 30+ years reactor engineering, safety case development, and regulatory engagement across multiple jurisdictions.
Craig Sellers
Ex-OPG Chief Nuclear Engineer. Reactor design, core physics, and modernization program leadership.
Dr. David Deak
President, Marbex. Ex-Tesla, ex-CTO Lithium Americas. Battery materials & energy supply chain.
Paul Hardy
Strategic advisor. Investor relations and financing narrative development across growth-stage energy.
Soo-Whan Kim
Public-company finance. SPAC structuring and capital markets execution in growth-stage energy companies.
Prit Singh
Founder, Thesis Capital. Capital markets advisory with 200+ investor roadshows.
Mark Hoffman
Westinghouse safety advisor for AP1000. Senior Reactor Operator, Braidwood & AP1000. 19 years at Exelon, thermal-hydraulics and accident analysis.
Dr. Kenneth Ricci
PhD Physics, Stanford. Thorium breeder reactor modeling and Monte Carlo neutronics. Published in Nuclear Technology. Fusion neutron source development at Adelphi Technology.
Dr. Tarak Woddi
PhD Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M. Licensed CANDU reactor operator. Thorium breeder reactor design and fuel cycle modeling. PRA across 11 nuclear power plants.
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