Kairos Oak Ridge Reactor Demonstration Campus
- Headline capacity
- Not established in published records
- Updated
- Oct 28, 2026
On September 21, 2026, Kairos Power announced a binding term sheet with Samsung C&T for potential direct investment and in-kind engineering support of up to $100 million, subject to approvals, alongside integrated engineering, procurement and construction collaboration for Hermes 2. This is the same Hermes 2 transaction described in the child project, not separate campus financing or completed all-cash funding. Kairos brownfield demonstration campus at the former Oak Ridge gaseous-diffusion site containing Hermes, Hermes 2 and ETU facilities. Kairos Oak Ridge Reactor Demonstration Campus is in Oak Ridge, TN, US and is a energy infrastructure campus with under construction status.
Capacity
Operating IT capacity: Not established in published records
A missing figure does not mean zero. Planned, utility and generation figures are not operating IT capacity.
Development
Campus hosts separate nuclear and non-nuclear facilities.
Participants
Developer
Sources by role
Developer (1)
- Clean Electricity for the Tennessee Valley · Oct 21, 2025 · Primary
Developer (1)
- Kairos Power iterative development · Corroborating
Other participants (2)
Government authority
Sources by role
Government authority (1)
- The Time is Now · May 28, 2026 · Primary
Government authority
Sources by role
Government authority (1)
- The Time is Now · May 28, 2026 · Primary
Government authority (1)
- One Year After Executive Orders, U.S. Nuclear Energy Renaissance · May 23, 2026 · Corroborating
Additional project facts
Project scope
Source reportKairos brownfield demonstration campus at the former Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion site containing Hermes, Hermes 2 and ETU facilities.
SourcePublic-source research. Plans may change. See Evidence for sources and qualifications.
Related projects (1)
Under construction · Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
Same locality: Oak Ridge · Shared participant: Kairos Power LLC
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