3D-printed nuclear reactors · clean energy

Reactors designed by algorithm. Built everywhere.

Automated Fission designs 3D-printed fission reactors for heat and electricity. Our goal is to get clean, reliable heat and power to as many places as possible.

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↻ Drag the reactor to turn it. Every visit generates a new design.

Who we are

Reliability engineers designing reactors for everyone to build.

Automated Fission was founded on a simple idea: a reactor's safety and reliability case should shape the design from the first iteration, not be written after it. We put risk analysis inside the design loop, take the best design through regulatory approval, and license the design, operational technologies, and the safety case to qualified manufacturers — so more reactors get built, in more places, sooner.

Curtis Smith

Founder
Chief Reliability Officer

Curtis has spent his career in nuclear probabilistic risk assessment and safety analysis — fault trees, event trees, and the SAPHIRE and KUREAS family of tools — and has over 300 publications in the field. He has supported advanced-reactor safety analysis at Idaho National Laboratory.

He created KUREAS, a suite of browser-based risk and reliability tools that now runs inside Automated Fission's design loop. As Chief Reliability Officer he owns the reliability case: every design we advance is quantified for risk before it is built.

Risk-informed from iteration one

System and facility models are generated with each candidate design and quantified alongside the neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, and other engineering applications such as stress checks.

Manufacturing is a design variable

Printability — size, overhang, print envelope, material, and print time — is scored in the same loop as performance and cost.

Built everywhere

Non-exclusive licenses on published terms, with lower fees in emerging markets. Impact is measured in megawatts deployed.

Passive by default

Shutdown and decay-heat removal that rely on physics, not on operators or power.

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Licensing, manufacturing partnerships, general questions or investment — we read every message.