Tori Shivanandan
President and Chief Operating Officer of Radiant, where she leads the commercialization and scale-up of Kaleidos, a transportable 1-megawatt nuclear microreactor for commercial, industrial, and U.S. defense customers. She has discussed Radiant’s Army Janus Program award and its manufacturing plans for portable nuclear power.
Radiant Wins $750 Million Army Contract for 15 Microreactors
Radiant has won a $750 million Army contract to supply 15 of the 20 portable microreactors planned under the Janus program, an award President and COO Tori Shivanandan says reflects the military’s confidence in the company’s technology and manufacturing capacity. Shivanandan argues that Radiant’s one-megawatt Kaleidos reactors offer the Army a more resilient energy model by bringing generation directly to where power is needed. The company must now complete testing at Idaho National Laboratory, deliver its next reactor to a military base in 2028, and scale production.
Portable Microreactors Shift Nuclear Complexity From Customers to Manufacturers
Radiant argues that nuclear power can become easier to deploy if reactors are built and sold as transportable products rather than bespoke, permanent construction projects. Tori Shivanandan and Doug Bernauer say the company’s Kaleidos microreactor would deliver roughly five years of power, then return to Radiant for refueling and waste-related obligations, leaving customers without a long-term nuclear site. A planned full-power test at Idaho National Laboratory is meant to show whether that factory-built model can work in practice.