Programmes and agreements / prg-us-nano-doe-id-zeus-odin-siting-mou

NANO Nuclear and DOE Idaho Operations Office memorandum to evaluate siting ZEUS and ODIN prototypes at INL

NANO Nuclear and the DOE Idaho Operations Office signed a five-year memorandum of understanding in December 2024 to evaluate the feasibility of siting, building, operating and decommissioning NANO's ZEUS and ODIN experimental microreactors at Idaho National Laboratory. It is an evaluation framework, not a siting decision or licence.

Not a deployment project. SMR plans, agreements, studies and government programmes that are not (yet) a single deployment project. They are listed separately and are never counted as projects or reactors.

Type

Cooperation agreement or MOU

Countries concerned

United States

Region named by the sources

Idaho

Participants and roles

• Developer or vendor: NANO Nuclear Energy
• Government: U.S. Department of Energy Idaho Operations Office
• Research: Battelle Energy Alliance (INL operator)

Designs named

ODIN, ZEUS (no design profile)

Scale as stated

Not stated by the sources

Announced or first reported

4 Dec 2024

Status

Status not established
Five-year MOU to evaluate feasibility, no site selection, land-use agreement or licence application in the sources read.

Confidence

medium

Last checked

2026-10-14 (record review date, not proof of current activity)

Related deployment projects

• No related deployment project is recorded here.

Sources

• NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho Operations Office Sign MOU to Site the Company’s Microreactor Prototypes Within Idaho… (company_primary, published 4 Dec 2024, accessed 2026-10-14)