Aalo designs reactors around factory fabrication and road transport, using liquid sodium so vessels stay small and near atmospheric pressure instead of relying on large pressurized water systems.
The plants use commercially available low-enriched uranium oxide fuel, which avoids waiting on a scarce HALEU supply chain.
Hyperscale and AI data-center operators are seeking firm, high-density power that the existing grid cannot add on the same timeline as new compute campuses.
Factory-built modular nuclear plants are being positioned as behind-the-meter generation that can be sited with the load rather than waiting for large custom reactors or new gas pipelines.
The commercial offering is the Aalo Pod, a 50 MWe plant of five truck-transportable Aalo-1 sodium-thermal reactors that share turbines so the site can stay online during maintenance.
Aalo-X is the first full-power 10 MWe plant under construction at Idaho National Laboratory and is meant to prove the same reactor module before fleet Pod deployments.
