Four disciplines, one project pipeline
Building a thorium molten salt reactor project takes more than reactor physics. UGET operates across four connected disciplines to move projects from paper to power.
01Technical
Reactor design, fuel cycle engineering, and site engineering grounded in decades of molten salt reactor research.
02Translation
Turning reactor economics and safety into terms investors, regulators, and communities can evaluate directly.
03Federal
Navigating licensing pathways and federal program engagement to keep projects aligned with current regulatory frameworks.
04Partnerships
Building the supplier, utility, and capital relationships a first-of-kind reactor project depends on.
The conditions have shifted
Thorium molten salt reactors are not a new idea. What is new is the alignment of demand, policy, and capital that finally makes deploying them practical.
Industrial load growth has returned firm capacity to the center of utility planning, reversing twenty years of resource plans that treated it as discretionary. Community-level demand is approaching the same threshold, where adequacy shifts from a planning margin to a critical need.
Federal licensing reform is shortening the path for advanced reactor designs that were previously stalled for years, and our team of government and private industry experts can work with any project.
We have refinery relationships in place and secured supply for the critical inputs. Capacity scales with project demand and we can source to any project size we take on.
Private and federal capital are increasingly willing to fund first-of-a-kind advanced nuclear projects rather than waiting for a second mover; we have established programs that can meet any challenge.
“The real barrier is not the science. It is the ability to turn a technically credible reactor into a permitted, financed, and operational project that can reach the grid.”
What a UGET plant costs, and earns
Representative economics for different plant scales show how the thorium fuel cycle can improve cost competitiveness while maintaining a strong operational margin.
10 MW reactor
10 MW reactor
100 MW reactor
100 MW reactor
- Thorium MSR (10 MW) 90%
- Thorium MSR (100 MW) 90%
- Utility-scale solar 16%
- Onshore wind 32%
These efficiency values are presented as benchmark figures and should undergo a second verification pass against the final plant design basis and source documentation before use in investment materials.
The range, at a glance
Scroll through the comparison to see how representative levelized costs differ across generation sources.
The demand nobody is positioned to meet
Grid operators, industrial developers, and federal agencies are all facing the same shortfall in firm carbon-free power. UGET is building the projects to close that gap.
Firm, carbon-free power designed for industrial and data-center load profiles.
Advanced reactor strategy tied to a practical federal permitting and compliance path.
Thorium-based fuel cycle aligned around a low-pressure molten salt operating model.
Project development built around site readiness, supply chain discipline, and capital alignment.