Projects / prj-unity-inl
Deployable Energy Unity at Idaho National Laboratory
DOE reported a Unity criticality demonstration at INL on 30 Jun 2026, the third Reactor Pilot Program criticality. Opened notices do not state electrical output or coolant.
- Stage
- Commissioning
- Design
- Unity (Microreactor)
- Technology
- Other · unknown
- Operator(s)
- Deployable Energy
- Vendor(s)
- Deployable Energy
- Location
- Idaho National Laboratory reactor-pilot area · United States · precision: approximate
Same approximate INL campus pin already used for the Aurora record. Experiment pads for Aalo-X, Mark-0, and Unity were not separately surveyed in the opened DOE notices. The NuclearChain Aalo Idaho pin near 43.52, -112.05 falls on Idaho Falls and is not used. - Coordinates
- 43.533, -112.947
- Electrical capacity
- thermal only (no MWe) · scope: module
- Thermal capacity
- —
- Modules planned
- 1
- Inclusion basis
- microreactor_labeled
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-10-01 (publication/verification date)
Milestones & dated events
- Unity criticality demonstration: 2026-06-30 · actual · day · first_criticality
Regulatory actions
- None recorded in this release.
Sources
- DOE fact sheet: The Golden Era of American Nuclear Energy Has Arrived (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-01)
- DOE EM note on four Reactor Pilot criticality reviews (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-01)