December 20, 2025

Nucleation Capital Participates for a Second Time in Blykalla’s $50M Financing

Nucleation Capital is pleased to congratulate Blykalla on the close of its $50 million financing round in December 2025 and to confirm its participation as a returning investor. The round was co-led by Oklo, Norrsken Launcher, and Armada Investment, with participation from strategic and financial investors including KDDI, Earth Venture Capital, and the co-founders of CoreWeave.

This marks Nucleation Capital’s second investment in Blykalla, following the $7.3 million Series A completed in the spring of 2024, which Nucleation co-led with Norrsken Ventures. Since that time, Blykalla has continued the development of its SEALER lead-cooled reactor while expanding its commercial and partnership activity across Europe and North America.

Over the course of 2025, Blykalla announced a series of partnerships and project-related agreements tied to Nordic deployment of its SEALER reactor, transatlantic cooperation, and the use of nuclear power for data centers.

In February, Blykalla and Norsk Kjernekraft announced a memorandum of understanding to explore the deployment of the SEALER reactor in Scandinavia, followed later by an agreement to pursue an SMR project in Norway’s Svalbard region. In late September 2025, Blykalla announced a major transatlantic partnership with Oklo to collaborate on reactor technology, supply chains, and regulatory coordination. Subsequently, in October 2025, Blykalla announced a landmark partnership with licensed nuclear site host Studsvik and European hyperscaler evroc to evaluate Sweden's first nuclear-powered data centers at the Studsvik site in Nyköping, Sweden. 

The capital from this financing will support continued testing and validation at the Advanced Reactor Testing Site in Oskarshamn, Sweden, further design and engineering work on Blykalla’s first nuclear units, and ongoing commercial and regulatory efforts related to siting and licensing its initial SEALER project.

Nucleation Capital invests in advanced nuclear and nuclear-adjacent companies focused on delivering reliable, zero-carbon energy. Nucleation’s continued participation in Blykalla reflects its long-term view that multiple next-generation reactor designs will be required to meet growing electricity demand from industry, data infrastructure, and other energy-intensive sectors.

December 16, 2025

Aalo Achieves Major Milestone With First Module Shipment to Idaho ()

Portfolio company Aalo Atomics officially announced at the Aaloverse Summit that it has shipped its first five Aalo-0 modules from Austin to the Idaho National Laboratory, validating its mass-manufacturing approach ahead of 2026 reactor criticality...

December 11, 2025

Energy Secretary Highlights Nuclear Revival as Radiant Prepares INL Microreactor Test ()

During a visit to Idaho National Lab, Energy Secretary Chris Wright underscored the administration’s push for a nuclear “renaissance,” with Radiant’s microreactor slated for testing in the INL DOME ahead of a July 2026 milestone.

December 2, 2025

America’s Nuclear Push Needs More Than AP1000s ()

The Wall Street Journal covers the administration’s $80 billion plan to scale AP1000 reactors, but the real opportunity is bigger than one design as advanced nuclear now spans microreactors, modular systems, and gigawatt-scale plants, a range that can serve data centers, industrial loads, military sites, and utilities alike...

November 25, 2025

X-energy Raises $700M Series D to Scale SMR Deployment ()

X-energy has closed a $700M Series D led by Jane Street, including participation from Ares Management funds, ARK Invest, Corner Capital, Emerson Collective, Galvanize, Hood River Capital Management, NGP, Point72, Reaves Asset Management, Segra Capital Management, and XTX Ventures...

November 22, 2025

Aalo Featured in Forbes’ Deep Dive on the New Nuclear Buildout ()

Forbes spotlights Aalo Atomics, a Nucleation portfolio company, as part of a new wave of U.S. advanced-nuclear companies moving from concepts to manufacturing, with progress at its Austin factory, a 2026 criticality target at INL, and growing investor support.

November 20, 2025

South Africa Signals Major Nuclear Shift with Koeberg Extension, PBMR Revival, and SMR Direction ()

South Africa has extended Koeberg’s life, moved to revive the PBMR program, and affirmed SMRs as a core part of its long-term nuclear strategy to stabilise the grid and support industrial growth...

November 17, 2025

AI Accelerates Nuclear Permitting Through Aalo–Microsoft Collaboration ()

Aalo Atomics is partnering with Microsoft to apply generative AI and agentic systems to complex permitting workflows to build faster, more efficient pathways for licensing and deploying advanced reactors...

November 6, 2025

Putting Nuclear back on the map

On Nov. 5th, as part of SOSV's Climate Tech Summit, Rod Adams of Nucleation Capital and Matt Loszak, CEO of Aalo Atomics joined Tim De Chant of TechCrunch in a panel called "Nuclear Fission Refueled: Putting Nuclear Back on the Map." Aalo Atomics, one of Nucleation's portfolio companies, had an opportunity to shine, as the only fission venture featured. Matt spoke about where Aalo is in its development cycle, why it has been pursuing DOE authorization for the past two years, why it was a serendipitous choice, given recent actions by the DOE and how that intersects with Aalo's NRC licensing process, among many other aspects of how Aalo is progressing with its development of a Gen IV nuclear reactor that is "purpose built" for data centers.

To listen to this panel, please click: "Nuclear Fission Refueled: Putting Nuclear Back on the Map."

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