Oklo (OKLO) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

We are building Oklo to earn revenue across the nuclear lifecycle.

Our reactors are designed to sell electricity and heat, with additional opportunities in irradiation services. Fuel fabrication can serve both our fleet and external customers. Recycling can recover usable fuel and valuable isotopes while providing services to owners of used nuclear fuel. Our isotope business serves specialized markets including healthcare and space.

These activities reinforce each other. Our powerhouses create fuel demand, fabrication and recycling support supply, engineering procurement, asset delivery, and operating experience carry across the platform.

We believe this integrated approach is allowing us to control our own destiny by giving us more security over critical deployment requirements and more ways to generate revenues as the nuclear energy industry scales.

We are putting capital to work and assets on the ground. At Aurora, Idaho, construction is advancing into structural work. Alongside it, we are building A3F to fabricate the first core. We are advancing power projects developing our Tennessee recycling facility, and preparing the Groves 2 forge.

At Groves 1, we have already completed the journey from a greenfield site to an operating reactor. That experience now sits inside Oklo. These projects are at different stages, but they demonstrate the breadth of what we are executing— reactors, fuel infrastructure, and isotope capabilities developed and informed together and by each other.

We are investing with repeated deployment in mind. The teams, suppliers, manufacturing capabilities, asset delivery experience, and operating systems we establish today are intended to support many more assets.

This is how we are building a business capable of delivering fleets.

Aurora, Idaho Construction Progress

Let’s turn to power, starting with the construction progress at Aurora, Idaho. These photographs show just over 7 weeks of progress at Aurora, Idaho. In September, you see site and foundation preparation. By early October, administration building foundation work was advancing. By November 4th, structural steel was going up.

This is our capital translating into physical infrastructure with visible progress from one visit to the next.

On a recent visit with a partner, what struck them was how much was happening on the ground and how quickly the site was changing.

These photographs give you a sense of what they saw.

Here you can see the reactor building going vertical, excavation, the access tower, and rebar installation.

Reactor area excavation is complete.

And safety-related rebar work is underway and vertical steel is being installed.

Alongside construction, our teams are advancing procurement, engineering, and the fuel fabrication capability needed for startup. The pace is visible. The coordination behind it is equally important, getting design, suppliers, equipment, and field execution moving together.

We are building our first Aurora powerhouse and developing the construction experience, supplier relationships, and project controls that will inform subsequent deployments. The work underway in Idaho is foundational to the fleet we intend to build.

Bringing Aurora, Idaho into operation requires construction equipment authorization and fuel to come together.

We are advancing all 4 in parallel.

On construction, excavation at the site is complete and structural and safety-related rebar work is underway.

The next steps are continued reactor area construction and equipment installation.

On procurement, component requests for proposals have been released and vendors selected. The focus now moves to fabrication, delivery, and integration.

On authorization, DOE has approved our preliminary documented safety analysis, or PDSA. The PDSA approval for the Aurora, Idaho, is an important milestone.

It is comparable to an NRC construction permit, and that it serves as a key regulatory review point for the project’s preliminary design and safety analysis, supporting the advancement of safety-related construction and procurement while helping reduce the risk of significant safety-driven design changes later in development.

The remaining authorization milestones include completion and approval of the documented safety analysis, readiness review, and startup authorization. On fuel, we are developing A3F to fabricate and qualify located.

We are managing these workstreams together with specific execution milestones on the path to startup.

PJM Interconnection and the Ohio Project

We deliberately pursued interconnection applications across potential sites in PJM. Building a fleet requires developing several opportunities in parallel and managing the risks associated with each. Today we have 900 megawatts under active consideration in PJM’s 2026 cluster study.

PJM withdrew one of our applications for a potential site in Virginia, and FERC ultimately dismissed our complaint challenging that withdrawal. That decision does not affect our Ohio project or our broader announced pipeline, and we are continuing to work constructively with PJM on those other interconnection applications.

The Ohio site continues through the interconnection process, supporting development of our planned campus of up to 1.2 gigawatts under our agreement with Meta. We are advancing that work alongside fuel procurement, site development, and execution planning.

This demonstrates the practical value of Oklo pursuing multiple applications. A setback at one location leaves other development opportunities moving forward.

Our focus is progressing these opportunities through the studies and agreements required to deliver power.

This is not uncommon in power development efforts.

You pick sites, you evaluate them, you pursue them, and often only a few make it.

ARMEC and CEI Acquisitions and U.S. Forged Rings Agreement

We acquired ARMEC and CEI to address specific execution needs, shorten development cycles, strengthen procurement, and improve our ability to manage costs.

ARMEC is already advancing component specifications, evaluating supplier proposals, and supporting reactor module development at Aurora, Idaho. Its manufacturing expertise helps us assess with other vendors how components should be built and what they should cost.

CEI brings decades of sodium systems experience and has built sodium test equipment and pumps for Oklo. Bringing that expertise inside the company gives our engineering teams direct access to the people designing, manufacturing, and testing these systems.

These are world-class capabilities that we now have in-house at Oklo, and bringing these capabilities in-house also supports our deployment schedules and allows us to prioritize and coordinate iterations directly.

It also creates an opportunity to retain manufacturing margin within Oklo and lower project costs as we put these capabilities to work. It is early days, but we are already finding opportunities for their value to extend across powerhouses, fuel fabrication, and recycling.

We bought capabilities that support execution today and can serve a growing fleet over time.

Alongside our internal capabilities, we are securing external manufacturing capacity for repeated Aurora deployments. Oklo has signed an agreement with U.S. Forged Rings, or USFR, to provide capacity equivalent to 27 Aurora modules across 2030 through 2035, covering large components such as vessels, lids, and support structures.

These components require specialized manufacturing and advanced planning. Reserving capacity now gives us a stronger foundation for coordinating future orders and deployment schedules. The agreement also enables us to expand to include expansion options on additional eligible new capacity.

USFR’s planned U.S. manufacturing campus would support domestic production, with deliveries dependent on facility completion and qualification. Individual purchases will be documented in subsequent orders. This relationship complements our broader supplier network. We are using our capital and purchasing commitments to address potential bottlenecks early and give suppliers visibility into our needs.

That is what planning for a fleet looks like— arranging the production capacity today that multiple deployments will require.

Using AI to Accelerate Engineering

AI is also accelerating and impacting how our businesses can execute more quickly and efficiently.

We are already using AI to accelerate technical work and make our engineering expertise go further.

One example is at Groves, where in less than a week, a single engineer used AI to adapt existing Aurora Powerhouse multiphysics models into a modeling prototype for Groves. Our team estimates that this compressed months of modeling work into days. Engineering work originally developed for our powerhouses directly accelerated progress in our isotope business, a prime example of our integrated platform at work.

We are also automating repetitive technical documentation.

Legacy document conversion that took days can now take minutes.

With document control rules encoded in software to automate checks.

The broader opportunity is to connect engineering knowledge inside Oklo. That includes our models, technical data, documents, and the people responsible for them. We are working to make those relationships more explicit In our software so teams can trace where information came from, how it changed, and who’s responsible for it.

That can reduce time spent finding information, checking consistency, and recreating work while supporting a clearer audit trail.

Reusable AI agents and workflows are allowing teams to share those improvements across engineering, coding, documentation, and analysis.

Our objective is to reduce the time and cost of delivering technical work and give our people more capacity to solve engineering problems. As we expand, those capabilities can support more projects across Oklo.

Fuel: A3F and Recycled Fuel

Now turning to fuel, which is the foundation for bringing our first powerhouse online and scaling the fleets.

We are building the Aurora Idaho powerhouse and the capability to fuel it in parallel.

We have secured access to recovered EBR-II fuel for our first powerhouse.

And at the Aurora Fuel Fabrication Facility, or A3F, we are preparing to turn that material into finished fuel assemblies for its first core.

Facility equipment installation is underway. We are targeting our first full fuel assembly in 2027, with fabrication activities coordinated to support Aurora Idaho’s targeted startup. That coordination matters. Our teams can align fuel specifications, manufacturing processes, qualification, and delivery directly with the reactor’s requirements.

We are also exploring opportunities for A3F to serve third-party customers to further support revenue generation from its fabrication capabilities. The immediate priority is delivering the first core. The manufacturing experience and quality systems we establish can also inform future fuel facilities. We are putting the material, equipment and manufacturing capability in place alongside the powerhouse that will use the fuel.

DOE has selected Oklo for approximately $6.8 million to advance recycled metal fuel with Idaho National Laboratory. This supports a specific part of our strategy, turning material recovered through recycling into fuel for Aurora and other reactors. The project addresses fabrication and qualification together.

Its scope includes developing manufacturing methods, fabricating and testing fuel specimens, and using performance modeling to inform recycled fuel qualification.

The objectives are to attain higher fabrication yield and throughput with less process waste, which could impact the economics of supplying recycled fuel to our entire fleet.

The work also includes preparing specimens for future radiation testing at Aurora, Idaho. That connection is important. We are building Aurora, Idaho while developing the fuel capabilities that can support subsequent deployments. Our reactor platform is intended to help generate operating data that informs future fuel development.

We are developing recycling and fabrication capabilities around the needs of the fleet we intend to operate and for additional opportunities to serve other reactor customers. This project advances the technical work needed to make recycled fuel a scaleable available source of supply for our reactors and other reactors for third-party revenue.

It is important to highlight that our goals with our recycling and fuel fabrication capabilities are to become leading fuel suppliers, not just for our reactors, but for others’ reactors as well, opening up potential fuel revenue streams from third parties.

Isotopes: Groves 1 and Groves 2

Turning to isotopes, starting with what we delivered at Groves 1 and what that experience makes possible.

We discussed Groves 1 last quarter, but I want to put the scale of that achievement back into context. The photograph here looks straight down into the reactor’s core structure. We completed substantial construction in 229 days and reached first criticality less than a year after groundbreaking. That is an extraordinary pace for a complex industrial facility.

Groves 1 was built on private land and financed with private capital. Its major systems, Components, fuel, and construction services were commercially sourced or manufactured by Oklo. DOE provided rigorous safety oversight and the authorization pathway, while Oklo supplied the capital and led execution.

The build cost was approximately $65 million, plus approximately $10 million for commercially sourced fuel from Framatome. Groves 1 is a low-power test reactor designed to establish experience for future isotope production facilities. We took that project from an open field through construction, authorization, commissioning, and startup of a nuclear facility in less than a year.

The significance of Groves 1 goes beyond the reactor physics. We built a complete nuclear facility and in doing so created the organization required to deliver and operate nuclear assets.

That capability creation was substantial.

We developed a site and completed civil construction. We built the safety basis and engineering documentation required for DOE review, along with the quality assurance and configuration controls needed to manage the project. We established security, radiation protection, emergency preparedness, and maintenance programs.

We built the operating organization. That meant hiring, training, and qualifying the people responsible for the facility, writing and testing their procedures, and demonstrating to DOE that the facility and organization were ready to operate safely.

On procurement, we qualified suppliers, negotiated commercial terms, completed factory acceptance testing, and took specialized equipment through installation and commissioning.

The project controls behind that work also had to function together— cost, schedule, supplier performance, construction sequencing, and readiness planning.

Oklo built these capabilities. We used them and demonstrated them through Groves 1. We now have real construction data, trained operators, operating experience, and DOE authorization experience inside Oklo. The organization required to deliver a nuclear asset has been tested through completed work.

Our build, own, and operate model allows us to retain that experience and apply it across the company. For future isotope facilities, the transfer is most direct. We can reuse and improve the operating programs, supplier relationships, authorization experience and workforce capabilities established at Groves 1.

For Aurora Powerhouses, we can adapt the project controls, procurement processes, construction sequencing, and commissioning and readiness practices to a larger and more complex. That experience is already informing our approach at Aurora, Idaho.

For fuel fabrication and recycling, we can apply experience with nuclear quality systems, material handling, radiological controls, and security programs. Each project still requires its own engineering, safety analysis, authorizations, and execution plan, and our teams now address these requirements with experience from a completed nuclear deployment.

We retain the people and procedures. We retain the cost and schedule data, operating experience, and lessons learned. Each project gives us an opportunity to improve how we deliver the next one. That meaningfully changes the starting point for future assets. It is how we are building the capability to deploy repeatedly across the business.

Groves 2 builds on that foundation with a broader integrated isotope production facility.

At Groves 2, we plan to bring irradiation, processing, and product finishing together in one facility.

Groves 1 test facility established our reactor capability. Groves 2 adds processing and product finishing facilities in addition to its reactor and irradiation capability. This integrated scope would allow us to produce isotopes, separate and purify Them and prepare finished products for delivery.

Bringing those steps together is intended to shorten turnaround times, reduce costs, and deliver products that meet more of our customers’ needs. We can directly build on experience from Groves 1 in construction, procurement, operations, and completing the DOE authorization process.

That gives our team a practical starting point for executing this broader scope. We have already purchased and secured fuel from Framatome for Groves 2. The project has also been selected for DOE’s Nuclear Energy Launch Pad, which will enable us to begin construction through DOE authorization.

We’re still finalizing the site location and developing the integrated facility scope.

Upcoming Milestones

We’ve never been in a better position to execute.

We have the capital and experience needed to advance our work across all businesses. The milestones on this slide show what we intend to accomplish next.

At Aurora, Idaho, we are targeting installation of major reactor components. At A3F, we intend to complete equipment installation and fabricate our first fuel assemblies. Recycling, we are targeting pilot facility commissioning in 2027. In isotopes, our targets are to begin construction of Groves 2 and complete our first contracted isotope delivery.

These are ambitious targets. They give our teams clear priorities and investors concrete measures of our progress.

Timing will depend on execution and required approvals.

Our balance sheet allows us to secure equipment and fuel early, build critical capabilities, and advance multiple projects in parallel.

We are putting that capital to work against specific deployment requirements.

Groves 1 demonstrated our ability to bring those pieces together and deliver a nuclear facility. applying that experience across the business and building the capabilities required for repeated deployment.

And with that, I’ll turn it over to Craig to walk through our financial results and capital position.

Q3 2026 Financial Results

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: Thanks, Jake.

Through the first 9 months of 2026, we continued to advance projects across our business units while maintaining a strong balance sheet.

Year to date, net loss through the 3rd quarter was $123.3 million.

This included a loss from operations of $195.2 million, partially offset by $72.4 million of net interest and dividend income.

Cash used in operating activities was $110.9 million year to date.

This includes the net loss of $123.3 million, adjusted primarily for $49.1 million of non-cash stock-based compensation and $36.7 million Of net changes in working capital and other adjustments. We continue to expect cash used in operations to be within our guided range of $120 million to $150 million.

Cash used in investing activities was $1.3 billion.

That included $965.1 million of net cash used for purchases of marketable securities related to the cash generated from our ATM program.

Year to date, capital spend was $280.9 million as we continued planned investments in the deployment of assets across our 3 businesses.

We expect cash used for property, plant, and equipment to be within our guided range of $400 million to $500 million.

Balance Sheet and Capital Position

At September 30th, we had $3.1 billion of cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities.

This included $1.5 billion of cash and cash equivalents and $1.6 billion of marketable securities.

The balance also reflects $2.3 billion raised through our ATM offerings during the first 3 quarters of the year.

We proactively and intentionally raised capital to build the financial capacity to advance projects across our platform.

The balance sheet is giving us the financial flexibility to fund planned work across all 3 business lines as projects progress, including development and construction activities, long-lead equipment purchases and fuel acquisition for powerhouses and isotopes. It also allows us to make project investments when required and enables commercial flexibility to support execution against our planned milestones.

Before we move to questions, I want to connect our financial position with the progress Jake described and what we are targeting next.

We’ve positioned the company to be in execution mode and are taking actions to build assets to generate revenue for each business line. Our balance sheet allows us to secure fuel and equipment early, build critical capabilities, and advance projects in parallel.

That capital is being put to work.

Groves 1 is complete.

Aurora INL is advancing through construction with its preliminary documented safety analysis approved, and A3F equipment installation is underway.

We are also preparing for the projects that follow.

Our internal manufacturing capabilities, supplier agreements, and fuel strategy are intended to support repeated deployment.

Customer commitments reinforce that work.

Meta’s prepayment supports Ohio development and fuel procurement, and developing customer agreements are advancing our isotope business into space applications.

Our model, as well as our M&A strategy, is designed to retain and leverage the operating experience across our power, fuel, and isotope businesses.

And we are seeing ways for fuel fabrication and recycling to not only support our fleet, but also create opportunities to serve other customers and generate revenue.

Our responsibility is to deploy capital with discipline and convert these capabilities into operating assets and customer deliveries.

The milestones Jake outlined provide concrete measures of that progress.

Thank you for joining us today.

Operator, we are ready for questions.

Question-and-Answer Session

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Your first question comes from the line of Joseph Osha with Guggenheim. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Third-Party Fuel Revenue

Joseph Osha, Analyst – Guggenheim: Thanks, everyone. Good morning, and thanks for the update. I’m wondering if we could drill a little bit more into the fuel business, in particular the potential for third-party revenue. I’m wondering about the timing for that and also what that might look like.

Are we thinking— is that all going to be highly enriched fuel, standard enriched fuel, and would that be fed entirely by recycling or procurement from elsewhere? Just more detail there would be great because it’s— that’s interesting.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: Jake, do you want to take that one or you want me to?

And you’re on mute.

I’ll take it since it looks like Jake’s having a few technical difficulties.

So I think it’s a really good question and thanks for it. It could take a couple of forms. So we’re building out strategically our recycling business and we’ve always said that business is not only being developed for the production of fuel for Oklo powerhouses, but we’re also starting to explore other non-Oklo customers for that business.

But maybe closer to the here and now, Ryan Webster who leads our fabrication division and is leading the charge on A3F. There’s fabrication that we think we could do for others. Some of the investments that we are looking into and some of the partnerships around Conversion, deconversion can also be sources of revenue.

And maybe the other thing I keep pushing Ryan on is, is there a world even before we’re ready to fabricate and produce fuel for others where we could offer technical services. So we’re really trying to explore all of those options in parallel at the moment.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: And I’ll just chime in and add a little bit more. I think there’s a couple of things that kind of add to capabilities here. If you think about what we have at fuel fabrication, to answer your question in a number of ways, it’s really a capability that is frankly, our goal is to be the leading fuel fabricator for advanced fuel forms.

We’re not working on TRISO obviously, but for what we’re doing with metallic fuel, with high-assay low-enriched uranium-type plus oxide fuels for advanced reactors, as well as for support for next-generation fuel forms like nitrides and zirconium hydrides, things like that, that we will have the capabilities and expertise and capacity to be able to support. That’s worked for others, right?

And the reason we highlighted those is because we’ve seen interest and we know there’s demand and we know there’s a capacity shortage to make fuel to serve those markets. And primarily that’s going to focus on stuff that’s above LEU, but there’s going to be the capacity to work with LEU given that there’s some unique things you can do with some of those fuels with normal low enriched uranium.

When I say above low enriched uranium, I’m talking about things that live between 5% and all the way up to just under 20%, right? So that spectrum is going to be a pretty strong focus area. And how we look at that is that’s not all the capabilities we necessarily have to do.

We have the infrastructure in the building and the facility. Others can come in and rent that space from us, bring their own, basically, frankly, machinery and equipment to fabricate, or we can partner with them and do it for them given our expertise. But it creates a diverse set of— frankly, it’s a fuel fabrication platform really that allows for folks to plug and play or us to make for others.

I think this is where we see a lot of excitement because when we kind of extend this outward, there’s a huge amount of opportunity in fuels, not just supporting what we’re doing, what other fast reactor companies are doing, what other microreactor company concepts are exploring and doing and enabled by advanced fuel forms, what space reactors need.

But also, even as we look at advanced fuel forms going to next-generation light water reactors or just upgrades at light water reactors. All of that can tie into because we have a significant shortage of fuel fabrication capacity today for the light water fleet looking outward, not something that’s core to us to get into. making the kind of bread and butter of the light water fleet today.

But being able to be supportive, be a place for, or even be a direct manufacturer for advanced fuel forms that can support those is pretty important. And then we can work with, yes, that fresh uranium infrastructure of feed that comes in, but also with the output of what comes from the recycling facility. So it gives us quite a bit of flexibility in terms of being able to make what we need. support fabricating.

And again, either we make it and sell those services or sell the fuel to them, or we provide them the space to come do that. So there’s a number of different ways we can offer kind of in the value chain and be able to capture some of that in terms of revenues.

Joseph Osha, Analyst – Guggenheim: And just very quickly, some rough sense of first revenue on this. I know it’s hard, but gotta ask.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: I mean, I think it depends on a couple of variables for how this goes. I mean, there’s some potential for early sort of services revenue that could come over the course of sort of the next 2 years. But the real ramp rate is going to happen after the facilities are scaled into operation and beyond and other companies’ reactor deployments kind of move forward into those areas.

But we’re eagerly looking at ways that that’s evolving. And frankly, as we develop this capability and people pay more attention to it, we keep sort of seeing new folks showing up with different ideas and concepts. So it brings a couple of different ways for that to come to the table.

Joseph Osha, Analyst – Guggenheim: Thank you.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Dimple Gosai with Piper Sandler. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

DSA Timing and Transition to NRC Licensing

Dimple Gosai, Analyst – Piper Sandler: A very good morning, and thanks for the question here. And just a big shout-out, I thought the deck was excellent, so well done on that. Can you please remind us on the DSA submission timing, Jake?

And also, once Aurora is operating, does it sell power commercially under DOE authorization or only after it moves to NRC license under this new DOE-to-NRC rule, right? And then just on that still, what is the expected timing if the transition happens? Can you remind us of this and the offtaker? Thank you.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yes. So a couple of variables to that. So the PDSA is a very important milestone, allows us to build, which is why we’re in construction and the depth we are. DSA will happen much closer to construction completion. So We don’t imagine that going forward until 2028 being the thing that makes the sense to do.

Then in terms of timing for transition to the NRC, it’s going to depend on our operational milestones and other things we can do. One important thing about Aurora, Idaho is, yes, it can sell power, but it can also sell irradiation services. There is no fast irradiation— fast neutron, sorry, irradiation capability really in the Western world operational anymore today. Right.

And the U.S. government was going to spend billions of dollars to build a new capability that ultimately didn’t go anywhere because of the lift of that. But that’s what Aurora Idaho is going to be able to produce and provide for. So it’s going to be able to monetize that, that support next-generation materials and fuel research for everything from federally funded research programs all the way through private investment.

I mean, we’ve seen companies in the United States and in Europe, well, all throughout the world, have to invest and spend money to send things to Russia to be tested. And that’s in the past. Obviously, those things aren’t open and available anymore. So We’ll have the capability and capacity to support those things here, as well as tremendous potential for isotope production.

So it’s all sort of enhancements with that plant, revenue enhancements with that plant. from power sales, which is obviously a foundational piece, but also radiation services where people pay to put things in and get access to the neutrons there. And then also isotope production. And so it’s a pretty cool sort of 3-pronged approach for how that can look.

A lot of those can be done, those other ones can be done largely, isotopes and radiation services can largely be done to varying degrees under DOE authorization, and so can power sales under certain use cases. But ultimately it allows us to have a much more unconstrained point of operations when we convert that over to the NRC and give us a lot more flexibility. So that’s kind of the why and the timing of that.

But one of the things, for example, that’s nested pretty significantly into the executive of orders from May 2025 was the ability to sell power to the data centers under DOE authorization. So in other words, sell power to a data center offtaker directly under DOE authorization. So that is another pathway that could be something that makes sense to do under that sort of trajectory. But again, having the flexibility from the NRC conversion.

And given the confidence we see in the time we’ve spent with the NRC to date, let’s not forget that about a year and a half ago we completed a readiness review preparing to submit the application before the Accelerator pathways that came from DOE opened up. So we’re excited to be able to actually go through that effort. And we see the NRC’s preparedness to be able to take an application and move it forward to be converted into an NRC space.

So ultimately, that’s the end state we’ll end up. But there’s a number of things you can do before that happens and have a pretty wide degree of flexibility.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: And then, Dimple, in terms of power sales, under the DOE permit, We can sell power to the labs, which we’ve always seen that as being the first initial customer for power coming out of the powerhouse, and then we will transition to an NRC permit.

I think the good news is it doesn’t really feel like DOE and NRC are working collaboratively to find ways to streamline that process because they’re, I think, rebuilding a streamlined process. It’s hard to put a definitive timeline on it, but it definitely feels like an accelerator. And I’ll make sure that Sam and the team get the thank you on the deck because they did all the hard work.

Dimple Gosai, Analyst – Piper Sandler: Thank you.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of George Gianarikas with Canaccord Genuity. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Government Surplus Plutonium

George Gianarikas, Analyst – Canaccord Genuity: Hi everyone. Thank you for taking my questions. My question’s on plutonium.

What’s your current timeline and potential expected cost structure for receiving some of the government-held surplus?

Thank you.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, I think we see— so there’s a couple of variables developing there. We continue to make progress through sort of the DOE’s programs and engagement to set the stage for that. I think what we’re expecting is a tranching of material from different sources and sort of availability and quote unquote, “manufacturable” more directly. So some of it might need some work before it becomes manufacturable. And so the point is to work with stuff that’s more readily available.

The— and so that’s continuing to progress. We’re eager and excited to see that continue. And we’re obviously very excited about the traction on that point. Unfortunately, I think the Timeline for what that’s going to look like, we expect to become a lot clearer in the next few months in terms of when that material is going to be able to come out and move available or move forward on that.

But we’re hopeful and optimistic there’ll be various term milestones along the steps there over the course of the next few months for that material to release into being able to fabricate.

The questions then about cost structure, I mean, in general, Again, one of these things that is somewhat dependent on programmatic structures and contours, but generally inclined to being provided to you as is with no specific fee or cost, but then the cost to fabricate is obviously burdened by the recipient. So that’s kind of the thing. So it provides a pretty attractive cost of feedstock that’s basically zero.

But then obviously has to be fabricated and go into fuel from there.

George Gianarikas, Analyst – Canaccord Genuity: Thank you.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Marc Bianchi with TD Cowen. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Meta Agreement and the Ohio Project

Marc Bianchi, Analyst – TD Cowen: Hey, thank you. I wanted to ask about the Ohio project and Meta there. Is the agreement with Meta binding to build the reactor? And if not, when would you get to that point and maybe walk us through some of the milestones that would need to occur to get there?

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah. So it’s not binding as is to build the reactor. I think it’s natural for a project like this, and especially one where Meta’s leaned in to help drive forward a kind of a new model that’s constructive to nuclear here, because let’s just remember, there really is no example for this.

From a nuclear sort of developer-operator model to bring it forward. But obviously it was attractive to them to select that and that’s why they’ve done it. It kind of progresses through various stages to move through the site development, the long-lead procurement like fuel, and also into interconnection and then into full execution.

But it’s a relational buildup. And what’s important about that for us too is it brought them to bring capital at the beginning to help with that.

To show a path then to continue scale and execute and illuminate the clear path to when delivery is going to be. And then also the costs. And when I say the costs, I just don’t mean the Oklo cost, but the actual prevailing cost of power too, and sort of have those things converge in a constructive way so it works for everybody.

But with a recognition that what they— I think not, generally when you look at kind of how I think the strategies went into what they did to put these things together and this program together. It was about finding the partners to help advance this because they see the technology as being significantly enabling to them.

And instead of just being a purely transactional partner, they want to be a development partner as well in ways that also make sense for us. And so finding the way to do that was what we were pretty excited about landing in with this deal. But it has a very clear trajectory, right?

From line of sight to execution to actually turn into turning power plants on. And we look at a power— when we look at a scarce market and we look at the timelines of power delivery and where we are largely at the lead of or in the near front of that pack from nuclear-generated electrons, especially advanced nuclear-generated electrons.

That gets them pretty interested and excited, I think. And that’s part of why they selected us on that process to develop into this. So it’s kind of a buildup along a normal development project before it executes into that stage. And we like that because it gives And brings them to the table with us as a partner and not just as kind of a transactional customer.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: Marc, there are some binding elements to it, such as they’ve provided some capital that gives them reservation capacity. And then we have milestones in terms of doing things with that capital, with probably the first kind of big milestone around that being the securing of fuel. And we are working on that process as we speak. And then there’ll be other milestones further down the line as we progress the project.

Marc Bianchi, Analyst – TD Cowen: Great. Thanks so much, guys. I’ll turn it back.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from Brian Lee with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Non-Data Center Opportunities and the Political Landscape

Brian Lee, Analyst – Goldman Sachs: Hey guys, good morning. Thanks for taking the questions. Maybe just a big picture one. I know it’s early days, but we obviously had a bit of a pivot in the political landscape here this week. And then you’ve had a lot of these sort of state-level moratoriums starting to pop up and become pretty meaningful points of debate for data center development going forward.

So I guess in that context, a lot of folks kind of assume you guys are mostly going to be focused on data center, BTM type applications with the Aurora powerhouse. But given the 75-megawatt configuration, it seems like you guys would be better suited than some of your larger-scale SMR peers— larger scale in terms of their capacity. to go after other types of applications, non-data center related.

Have you guys given any thought to sort of a shift in go-to-market or at least allocating more of a push to non-data center opportunities going forward, just in the context of all that’s going on?

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, I think to get into it too, I mean, one of the things that’s— I mean, yes, the answer is yes. And that was always kind of a posture we had. Obviously, data centers are well-heeled, fast-moving, needing a lot of power and consuming it in chunks. And now we see maybe some various dynamics evolving.

I do think that you’re going to see continued concentration of data centers in states that are supportive of this because there are states that are going to be supportive and interested in having these things, and that’s just going to further pull demand into some different locations. And to be honest, our posture gives us flexibility to be responsive to that.

But when you look at what’s happening, just broadly speaking, I think I was thinking of 3 major vectors around what’s been driving electric demand and why we see a lot of upward price pressures are largely influenced by demand. Obviously, data centers are a flagship piece of that, but let’s not forget that for the last 10, 15 years, we’ve seen large shifts towards electrification in many, many ways. And that is putting load on the grid, right? Albeit maybe in less gigantic and noticeable chunks of data centers, but it is.

I’ll add to that significant efforts around reindustrialization, which is obviously something that supports jobs in America and is quite bipartisan in nature, looking at policies of the last several administrations. We’ve in many ways from an energy policy perspective, we as a country saw a shift of those kind of baseload-consuming industries and assets and factories being shuttered and moved overseas. Well, when they come back, they need that kind of power again.

And so we see this manifesting even in things we’ve done at State When we’ve been looking at going to states and siting there, they’re seeing that when they used to be able to go and try to attract new factories or new manufacturing presences coming to their states, power was too expensive. taken for granted that it was available.

And now they’re realizing they have— that’s a huge either weakness or vulnerability, or maybe if they have a little bit of strength, but most of them don’t have enough at all. And so we find that that is going to be, I think, a pretty sizable driver. So I think we’re pretty confident just in general. And like you said, our sizing and our posturing gives us flexibility to do that.

But I think the other thing that’s important is nuclear has a strong bipartisan level of support. It, I think one thing we’re going to see probably is a focus on also moving and heavily incentivizing in the ways that are possible clean power generation to come in and support, whether it be for data center generation or just new generation as a whole. In light of the election results, nuclear is really well positioned to do that.

So I feel pretty optimistic that either the policy shifts that are going to be moving towards maybe just the continued effort of saying “bring your own power if you’re going to build here,” as well as policies that are trying to attract, continue to try to attract manufacturing jobs into the states. They’re going to need power production, and nuclear is just incredibly well suited to do that.

And our positioning at our size range is very ideal for that too. It’s not too small at the megawatt scale for some of that to matter, and it’s not so big that you can’t sort of serve either an industrial facility or an industrial park. Instead, it’s pretty, pretty well suited to serve in that sweet spot, I think.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: And Brian, I would just also point out the ADVANCE Act, which was great for our sector and our business, came under the prior— under the Biden administration. I attended the U.S. Governors Conference and there were as many Democrat as there were Republican governors who wanted to talk to Oklo.

So I think that demand for the clean, affordable, reliable power is, I don’t think that demand profile is going away, which we definitely have not had a, the elections happened, but I didn’t have our corporate development team saying suddenly customers are calling saying they’re not interested. So I think it’s— which is why we’re so focused on putting assets on the ground.

Brian Lee, Analyst – Goldman Sachs: That’s great. Appreciate all the color, guys. Thanks.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: Thank you.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Nate Pendleton with Texas Capital Bank. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

ARPA-E Funding for Recycled Fuel

Nate Pendleton, Analyst – Texas Capital Bank: Good morning and congrats on the continued progress.

I wanted to touch on the ARPA-E funding for recycled fuel on slide 18. How much of the EBR-II fuel data carries over to recycled fuel given the residual lanthanides and actinides in the recycled fuel? And I guess what still has to be proven through testing, or is this more around process optimization?

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, I mean, and this program is largely around process optimization as well as supporting fuel qualification in different ways. But part of our— what we’re approaching is there is data from irradiated, we as a country have irradiated transuranic-bearing fuels in a number of different reactors and platforms to generate data that is directly applicable. and extendable to use for qualifying transuranic-bearing fuels at full kind of commercial usage.

That said, we do look to augment and enhance that with the fact that we’ll have the Aurora plant running.

And we’ll be able to use that to actually irradiate test pins and lead test assemblies of transuranic-bearing fuel to, I think, fully characterize and basically, quote unquote, “qualify” that out for our usage.

There’s not really such a thing formally as fuel qualification. People like to use it as a colloquial term to describe it, but generate enough data so that we have enough confidence for our own use as well as enough data and confidence to support its behavior in understanding its kind of failure modes and effects to justify its use to the regulator as well.

So I think at the end of the day, that’s what we see the intent and mission is broadly speaking, this is a really important step in that. I think what’s also nested in there that’s pretty exciting is support for other programs, not just ours, of using transuranic material, which is great for us because the recycling facility will produce transuranic materials. So it’s clearly showing that there’s interest in a market emerging for customers to want that material.

Given that it has some huge benefits, right, and advantages. So it’s pretty exciting to see what that’s looking like across the board.

Nate Pendleton, Analyst – Texas Capital Bank: Got it. Thanks for taking my question.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Derek Soderberg with Cantor Fitzgerald. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

U.S. Forged Rings Capital Commitment

Derek Soderberg, Analyst – Cantor Fitzgerald: Yeah, hey guys. So just regarding U.S. Forged Rings, I was curious if you could talk about your expected capital commitment there, if there’s anything. And then what sort of component volume are contemplated in the agreement? And then finally, just any additional color on why you’re moving forward with USFR over maybe some other more established steel companies? Thanks, guys.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, I mean, I think we work with a number of partners here.

So we’re excited about and feel confident about how we kind of approach having offtake. I think we’re very— I’m sorry, not offtake, supply for what we need to do to deliver. But I think at the end of the day, what we saw here There was a group that has the ability to stand up and support some large capacity that we expect to be able to grow into and would like to have that decongests some of the backlog in other areas.

Again, because of our pace and And where we’re at, especially the Aurora Project, we feel very good about what we need in the near term. The question though is, is that scales into the longer term? And that’s where we see new entrants are needed because the capacity is just not going to be there. And so that’s why we’re going to be able to be supportive and drive that forward.

And at the moment, it’s an initial small investment and then it gives us reservation and capacity that as they scale up, then we can access that capacity. And that, but that would be commitment for procurement that we would be doing as we scale up the fleet.

Derek Soderberg, Analyst – Cantor Fitzgerald: Perfect. Thanks, guys.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Ryan Pfingst with B. Riley. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Supply Chain and Procurement for Aurora INL and the Fleet

Ryan Pfingst, Analyst – B. Riley: Hey guys, thanks for taking the question.

What are some of the remaining items that we should be thinking about coming next on the supply chain or procurement and manufacturing for both Aurora, INL, and then the longer-term fleet deployment strategy?

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: I think so. I think in general, what we look at across the board there and definitely Craig chime in on this, but I think as we see kind of the stack of what we need to do to support this is we’re trying to solve to build obviously what we need to do for one. There’s sometimes solutions you find for that that are important for time, right? And we’ve been working really aggressively for time optimization to build that.

Quickly, sometimes some of the suppliers and providers don’t necessarily have the scale to do beyond one at the rates we expect to go to. So you kind of want to balance and work with that. in a number of ways and also balance that with having not having just a single supplier risk and work with a number of suppliers while then also evaluating what is it that we want to bring in-house and make ourselves.

And I think a view we’ve long had is it’s great to theoretically talk about, “oh, we do everything in-house, we verticalize every single thing.”

That’s a great thing to do when you have enough data and an understanding of what you actually need and want to do based on having built a few of these things rather than doing it all up front because you’re inevitably going to have to go back and retool and there’s a lot of capital needed to do that and all those kinds of things.

So finding that right balance is something of intentional focus for us. That’s why you build the one to go to many and have that kind of vector in mind. And so as we think about how that works, we’ve been fortunate to bring in some fantastic team on procurement and on supply chain as well as internally for manufacturing capabilities.

And that’s kind of dictated why we’ve gone out and built out capabilities in-house. We’ve acquired capabilities like ARMEC to really expand the things that we need to build ourselves, but also find those suppliers that can actually meet what we need to do what we’re trying to do here. I don’t know, Craig, if you want to add anything on that.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: Well, I would say in terms of INL, I meet with Rob Potowski and our procurement team every other week, and we’ve got the procurement plan for INL, it’s in place.

And we are executing against it. And we knew what the critical path items were and we acquired accordingly. But I think that in terms of what’s next, we’re already starting to work with Kiewit on what can we do differently and what will we do differently for subsequent powerhouse deployments. How might we use, to Jake’s point, ARMEC and other things that we brought in-house. And then we’ll start working on that procurement strategy then.

And I won’t name the vendor, but we actually had one of our key suppliers visiting us this week down at Groves in the— The nature of those conversations was more about “what more can we do together?”

So I think it’s great that we’ve got partnership with our key suppliers and it’s a twofold conversation. Part one is deploying the, working on the deployment of the assets that are going on the ground today. But the second part of the conversation is what’s next.

Ryan Pfingst, Analyst – B. Riley: Appreciate all that detail, guys. Thanks.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Jeffrey Campbell with Seaport Research Partners. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Groves 2 and Pharmaceutical Isotope Demand

Jeffrey Campbell, Analyst – Seaport Research Partners: Thanks for taking my question. Just to shift gears a little bit over to Groves 2, I was wondering if you’re currently working with any drug industry participants to refine your view of the isotopes that might be in greatest demand when the facility is capable of producing product.

Thanks.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: So, Jeff, I think the short answer to that question is yes. And Ray Wang and the team, I think Groves 2 is kind of interesting because it’s got 2 access points as we’re working on getting ready to start that project.

One is clearly where is it going to go? How do we leverage the learnings from Groves 1? It will be a larger asset. It will be a commercial asset. But then The other bit is the conversations we’re having with pharma and other customers so that we make sure that the isotopes we intend to produce can meet their needs. And that’s a very I think that’s probably where Ray and his team spend a good chunk of their time at the moment.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Fully echo that. That’s the great thing about this is it’s a versatile platform. We’ve coupled that with the demonstration of execution of Groves 1, and it gives us the ability to work with a number of different folks.

I think the thing I see excitedly on there, the radioisotope side is there’s kind of a strategy that’s approaching, right? One is having the ability to produce for what the markets want and need in the very— in the kind of immediate term that’s known. Right. And there’s a few clear isotope examples for that.

But then there’s a spectrum of others, and that was always kind of the intent of the reactor platform here is being versatile in its production, that are much more in the exploratory stages.

One thing that I think we’ve been observing Is the capabilities of the application of computational biology to explore the ligands, to explore the different molecular carriers of these isotopes, has been pretty significantly underexplored, frankly, radically underexplored.

And now with AI, it’s just not really being done because there wasn’t a lot of interest to say, “well, let’s spend a lot of— let’s spend those resources looking at things to carry isotopes that just we can’t buy. So why would we do that?” So they don’t.

Our view is now you can start to change that considerably and then you open up a really awesome sort of co-development opportunity where when you think about, okay, from the pharmaceutical side, as they’re starting to apply computational biology unlocking massively new, well, expanded capabilities for different ligands and carriers of different radioisotopes.

Now we can work with them closely and say at the developmental stages in the exploratory stages, the fundamental research stages, right? We can work with them and say, “hey, what do you need? Okay, in these cases we can make these, here they are.” And then from there you’ve been able to start producing the quantity needed to support that early-stage R&D that can then maybe translate into and propagate all the way out to something that’s in full production.

But then we’ll have the capability to actually have that flexibility to provide across a number of use cases. And then that opens up the door for many more, right? So it’s that kind of two-pronged approach of go after what’s clear and— But we’ve got extra neutrons floating around that we’re not going to always, we’re not going to need to use for producing things like lutetium-177 or other similar isotopes that are kind of flagship isotopes at the moment.

But it can be used to start making these exploratory quantities of others. And then hopefully that’s going to be a huge boon when that sort of helps support and drive further investments applying AI and computational biology to explore and develop these carrier molecules.

And then the use of other isotopes, right, that aren’t being produced at all today that might be transformative in their capability at the therapeutic level. All of a sudden we can start to bring those forward, right? I mean, it’s just, it’s super exciting to think about what this all looks like. But you need that capability and that platform and it doesn’t exist. And we’re excited to be building that.

Jeffrey Campbell, Analyst – Seaport Research Partners: Thank you.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Christopher Souther with Truist Securities. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Christopher Souther, Analyst – Truist Securities: Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking the call here. Just wanted to follow up a little bit, supply chain and US stuff.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: Hey, Chris, you’re breaking up. We’re not getting the question, I don’t think.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, we can’t really hear it.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: Operator, I think we should move on and then maybe we can bring Chris back.

Try again.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Seth Basham with Wedbush Securities. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Virginia Interconnection Application and PJM

Seth Basham, Analyst – Wedbush Securities: Thanks a lot. Good morning, and thanks for taking my question. My question’s regarding the Virginia application that the PJM rejected, and if you wouldn’t mind just recapping why it was rejected, and does that reasoning apply to any of your other interconnection requests, including Ohio?

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, I think just to add a little color on that, I mean, we’re active in engagement on, I believe it’s 900 megawatts of development capacity in Ohio, or does not affect our plans in Ohio. That was really focused on some other opportunities developing that we’re still continuing to explore and look at ways it can develop and advance in different or alternative pathways.

It’s a very interesting time, right? Because I think one of the things that’s been observed, broadly speaking, has been a general— I think a general realization that there’s need to continue to enhance the interconnection process. It’s obviously been a focus of priority and policy for the current administration and for various state leaders. And it’s a focus of bipartisan interest to make sure that we can get power plants online.

And one of the things that some of these interconnection processes struggle with is novelty. Novelty is key to going to the future. And that was one of the things that stood out about this was we were bringing in a mix of fuel sources and their processes just didn’t know how to handle it. And the kind of default is, “well, we don’t know what to do right now, but we’re going to try to figure it out to go somewhere, maybe in the future in a different way.”

And I think as you look across the spectrum, it’s an example set of those where folks are applying innovatively to that. Obviously, things, there are things that went through and carried along as anticipated, which is great. We continue to develop those in Ohio. We also remain excited about some of these future other opportunities, just given their proximity to where we see very attractive and exciting markets developing.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: Yeah, and it was one application, it was rejected for technical reasons. We’re actually— we don’t agree with the technical reasons for why it was rejected, but we got to play the ball where it lies. But I actually think it just reinforces the strategy we had to have more than one application. So we’re moving forward from there, but no read across to Ohio.

Seth Basham, Analyst – Wedbush Securities: Got it. And just as a follow-up on Ohio itself, what’s the expected timeline for that application?

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: We’re working through the PJM process, which I think is going to take place over the next 24 months. But I always think there are things you manage, things you influence, and things are the environment, and definitely I think the PJM process is one more that we influence and manage.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, I’ll just say, I mean, that was part of this last wave and it’s continuing to kind of progress through, right? So it’s not for a new set. It’s one that came through for the last wave and it’s continuing to go forward.

Seth Basham, Analyst – Wedbush Securities: Got it. Thank you.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Sameer Joshi with H.C. Wainwright. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Relationship With Centrus and Enrichment Markets

Sameer Joshi, Analyst – H.C. Wainwright: Hey, good morning, Jake, Craig. Thanks for taking my questions. Congrats on the progress. Just a quick question on the relationship with Centrus and Was there any progress or what is the next 9 to 12 months plan of action on that front?

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, I think what we see is we continue to be quite engaged with them and with various investment partners to continue to develop the market there. We’re in a great position given we have the projects we have given, for example, Craig pointed out to, again, Meta’s prepayment. We’re continuing to advance these and develop those opportunities.

I feel If you ask me what kept me up the most at night 2 years ago, fuel and the responsiveness in the enrichment markets was going to be one of the biggest ones. Not because we have fuel for our first plant. That’s great. But what I was worrying about was what does it look like to get beyond that?

And I feel today more confident than I’ve ever felt about what’s happening in the energy markets where, You’ve had such a stagnant industry for so long now being spurred to life for so many reasons. That you’re seeing the incumbents and the legacy players stepping up and executing in exciting ways. You see new entrants coming forward. So I’m quite excited about what’s happening there.

But again, we continue to have a deep relationship with Centrus that goes way back, and we continue to advance that forward while also continuing to help be supportive of other players in the ecosystem. Because our view is it’s a really important space that’s going to be, have a lot of growth and room ahead of it.

We’re facing a lot of demand growth there, not just for new advanced reactors, but for Sustaining the existing plants because we’re looking at an import ban and cliff hitting pretty hard next year. Add to that then also just growth and upgrades. It’s an exciting time in space where you get— be supportive and help and mobilize that while also being at the front of the lines, so to speak.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: And Sameer, it’s really amazing to me that 3 years on in my time in Oklo, this time 3 years ago, we would have predominantly been talking about regulatory risk and fuel supply risk. And I think we’re doing things to de-risk those every day. And it feels like we’ve got momentum on all fronts. And at the risk of getting in trouble, Jake now has a 2-year-old and a newborn. So there are other things keeping him up at night.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Eric Stine with Craig-Hallum. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Site-Specific vs. Flexible Customer Agreements

Eric Stine, Analyst – Craig-Hallum: Hey everyone, thanks for sneaking me in here at the end.

Just curious, you talked about kind of your optionality in PJM given that one situation, and it just makes me curious if you have other Agreements and certainly you’re pursuing other agreements like the Meta agreement. Do you anticipate that those agreements would be site specific? Would there be some flexibility? if you ran into issues like you did in one area, that someone might sign an agreement for just X amount of power rather than power at that specific location?

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, I think what we’re finding is the biggest interest is broadly in power. And I think what we’ve seen and what we’ve observed is a very interesting set of dynamics where you have a steady uptick in, and obviously, well, basically a steady expansion of interest in where data centers are going to everywhere they can find power.

And I think that’s the trend line that we’re tracking pretty heavily is they went from being on obviously in the core corridor states to now looking at sort of, “hey, wherever there’s power, that’s where we’re going to go.” And I think that’s going to play out then to the next stage, which is for new power development, not just from existing assets, but from new power development, it’s going to go to where that is.

And that’s somewhat co-iterative because obviously you have some flexibility to define where that power is rather than if you’re trying to go buy it from an existing plant that’s obviously already built and operating. But in this case now, there’s this dynamic where it’s, “hey, do you— if we’re okay, Oklo, where can you put power?” Or it’s sort of more then we respond to, “hey, these are the places we’re going. And this is the capacity we either do have or don’t have in those areas.” And then they can be, “okay, yeah, great, these ones make sense or these ones don’t.”

And then we can use that to make sure we’re focused on the areas we want to go, which gives us a lot of power and flexibility Again, I think what we’re seeing is traction obviously with the sites we have. It’s not abnormal for power development to go through. You pick a number of sites because that’s what we see the market moving us to, to say we’re going to develop these forward. Some drop off for various reasons and it kind of winnows down to a few and you just kind of repeat and build that muscle and keep going with that cycle to ultimately find the right places where you’re building and scaling and finding customers too.

But at this point, I feel like we’re entering more and more of a Field of Dreams stage, which is “build it and they will come.” I mean, that’s not universally true everywhere, but it’s quite— it’s a lot more supportive of that, broadly speaking, across the United States.

And for example, one of the things that I think I’m particularly excited about is when you think about these nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses, if you, as you think of what those look like, you start anchoring fuel production infrastructure, you have government policy supporting that in these areas, the natural, and then you’re building power plants naturally nearby those, you start creating these campuses that have the power capacity.

And we’re finding some of the data center folks starting to be, “hey, okay, this is very interesting.” And you think of the 6 states that are in the sort of final stages now, I think it’s going to be an example of that kind of “build it and they will come” mindset that’s going to start aggregating more interest that way.

Couple that then as well with just a broader, just broadly supportive price environments too. It gives us a lot more flexibility, which is nice. Part of— and I’ll just be clear that part of what helped us With driving the partnership with Meta was we saw the opportunity in Ohio and we went to it and we didn’t go there asking customers who wants this. We had enough knowledge of discussions with customers that that was a good place to go.

But having that in the sort of in the hopper, so to speak, really helped accelerate the interest from Meta. And I think we see similar dynamics to be evolving in other places. So informed by customer interest, but increasingly flexible to go where it makes sense to go and then look at others coming to us in cases.

Now, obviously, in light of sort of recent trends, And this ties also to a different dynamic where this will also start, I think, attracting other industrial development and infrastructure, which I think is attractive for diversifying the customer base, but also kind of moves to places that are going to be broadly just more supportive of development and folks coming in to anchor into those, because then kind of the bring your own new powers is being taken care of as part of the development aspects too. So it’s going to be interesting in those areas, but our model is very well suited for that because of the flexibility we can have.

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: And the ability to— and I think we’ll see more of this as we build out more power campuses in places like Ohio that will be contracting through virtual PPAs. And so it’s great that that’s a construct that already exists that we can leverage.

Eric Stine, Analyst – Craig-Hallum: Okay, thanks.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Christopher Souther with Truist Securities. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Supply Chain for Aurora INL vs. the Fleet

Christopher Souther, Analyst – Truist Securities: Hey guys, sorry about before. Is this better?

Craig Bealmear, Chief Financial Officer – Oklo: Much better. Sorry we had to bounce you.

Christopher Souther, Analyst – Truist Securities: No, no, it’s all right. You’re ready to bounce me there.

Maybe just on the supply chain for INL versus the fleet, Jake, you kind of discussed that a little bit. You guys have talked about working with Kiewit to kind of formalize portfolio deployments. Can you talk about how the USFR capacity reservation— it seems to imply about 2 gigawatts by 2035. What are the other long lead items for that 2030 to 2035 that you need to reserve over the next year or 2?

And then can you give us a sense what percent of the supply chain for INL is finalized versus the percent of the planned fleet supply chain that you guys have already formalized here? Thanks.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Yeah, I mean, I think, I mean, for INL, for the Aurora, Idaho plant, I mean, we’re pretty done. Yeah, we’re pretty much done. I think we’re in a good spot with With that, we’re obviously building and integrating and all that’s kind of along. And some— a lot of that is going to carry over to what’s next for where we go beyond it.

I think there’s a few cases where we’re looking at expanded capacity that exceed what was out there or offer better opportunities but wasn’t quite there. And USFR is an example of that. But for example, obviously the partnerships we formed with Siemens go long-lasting and rooted into many plants at scale, and that’s awesome. Fuel, we talked about Centrus, other componentry, our partnerships that we’ve been able to develop to not just support what we have here but go beyond it.

And then I think it’s one of those things that we’re looking at the kind of some of the major lifts are obviously fuel vessel. Pumps, certain things in the instrumentation control stack, steam turbine generators. And the heat exchangers and steam generators.

So I think as we look at what we’ve done with Aurora INL, a lot of that has direct carryover beyond. And then we continue to develop for having also optionality for not optionality, but flex— sorry, what’s the plan? Sort of extra capacity for what’s beyond that, just given what we expect to see happening and where we see the markets moving and the customer demand that we keep seeing coming in. So I think that’s where we look at solving kind of at scale through those.

OPERATOR: Your next question comes from the line of Drew Scott with Needham. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Aurora INL Startup Timeline

Drew Scott, Analyst – Needham: Hey, thanks for taking my question. I’m reading the 10-Q that it says Aurora INL comes online 2028 to 2029. Should we read that as a modest pushout to 2029? If so, I guess why?

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: Oh, I think, yeah. So I mean, Aurora, as we look at Aurora Idaho’s kind of timing for full commissioning and startup, one of the things we’ve learned from Groves is the variables that come into play to manage sort of things that are going to pop and kind of come up to mitigate through and the potentiality for equipment recalibration and testing and putting back in.

And as we look at kind of the schedules and the stack of when everything comes and how all that looks. Those are pretty important variables to make sure we kind of have the right buffer and bandwidth to support. And that’s a direct application of things you learn from the Groves experience. And we’re already tying some of those And electrical noise management is a huge thing in nuclear plants.

It’s one of those things that’s kind of everyone kind of knows it and then you kind of— you don’t forget it, but each site is so different for so many reasons based on what the building is and where the steel is, what structures you use and where you do the grounding and soil and the atmospherics and the time of year when you’re doing it. There’s so many variables. And so having that extra capacity, that extra flexibility it’s critically important.

And you think about why when you’re detecting single neutrons, which is literally what you’re able to do more or less, right? You’re detecting single nuclear reactions as part of some of these neutron monitoring systems. How that works is you have this charge applied in a detector and it detects the energy basically imparted from a nuclear reaction. Sometimes it’s a fission event depending on the thing on the detector technology.

But sometimes they use small amounts of uranium in there that fission when the neutron hits and that imparts energy and it deflects that field and you measure that perturbation. That’s really small and lumber. And so you have to have really strong noise insulation and isolation. And so if you have issues, you have to be able to root those things out. You have to be able to calibrate well. All that stuff takes quite a bit of time.

And at scale with Aurora, some of those things you can only do so much before the whole plant’s put together because the whole system is obviously coupled. So it’s just having the flexibility to do that while also allowing for what the firm finals are for things we’re obviously bringing in and what we’re stacking up to have everything installed by.

But I think that’s one of the longest leads is really tied over to the variables around the instrumentation side and the full plant integration and commissioning and startup based on what we saw and learned from Groves. So we’re doing some things that can pull some of that schedule with certainty over to the left. We’ve seen some wins there, but based on what we know and what we’ve learned, which is why we do these things.

That’s kind of how we see the buffer going with stacking the time for all the parts coming in, installing, and then doing everything you need to do to make sure everything’s commissioned and run up. Ideally, hopefully, we’re able to get in front of some of those things and we can maybe pull even more to the left. But at the end of the day, want to have that buffer in there because time is going to take time to do all this stuff.

I know that sounds a really funny thing to say, but This is why we did Groves 1, is to allow us to understand these things. Now we try to get in front of it. Now we try to manage what we can there. But some of this stuff can only really be done when you fully assembled and built everything. There’s some things you can do to kick it down and knock it down a little before, but that’s stuff you got to do. And that’s one example. There’s others too, but that’s kind of a prevailing example.

Sorry, let me just— sorry, I’ll just add a little more. I think one thing that’s important about that is given the nature of the system too and its ability to produce radiation services, produce, Be important for characterizing and developing out next-generation fuels and materials for us, for others, given its capabilities for isotopes. Some of the calibrations we want to do and need to do to enable those benefits And those revenues are— can be quite attractive in some ways, not to mention just enduring kind of national asset value are important to get that stuff buttoned up.

Kind of above and beyond so that we’re really well positioned to take advantage of the incredible performance that this system will have. So that’s part of where also that comes to bear is making sure we do it in those ways and not just a lens towards kind of the— from going to power generation, but also supporting the other aspects and being well positioned with that there and also being a training platform that informs everything we go forward on. Right. Because we’re doing things in this plant to teach us how to do it better or more efficiently in the future ones. So having that capacity is pretty important.

Closing Remarks

OPERATOR: There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call back to Jake DeWitte for closing remarks.

Jake DeWitte, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer – Oklo: All right. Well, thank you all for joining us today. Back in August, we were able to turn online the fastest privately sited fully privately built reactor in history, as far as we know and can tell from all the work we’ve done to study prior examples. And that’s a pretty exciting achievement to be the very first one. Similarly with Aurora, Idaho, we’re making incredible progress at incredible pace.

Which I think where we’re on trajectory to is similarly on pace to set a world record for fastest privately built fast reactor. And that’s pretty dang cool.

We’re learning a lot. Obviously, we’re applying it into it. We are executing. We’re executing meaningfully at scale. That site is abuzz with activity. We had a tour recently with some folks and some partners who came out. And when we looked at it, they were shell-shocked.

And these are folks used to seeing large-scale infrastructure development and projects from power to semiconductors to manufacturing I mean, all sorts of things. And they were rather excited to see the activity and the pace of progress and just the commitment that the team has to being successful in getting this done.

It also puts us in unique territory where We have this unique vector of control to actually complete the project, go forward and do more with the resources and capabilities and capital we have to get this done and not be in the sort of position that nuclear has often found itself, which is where you start a project, but you’re contingent on many other things for it to actually get done and built.

We don’t have that. We have everything we need. And that’s an incredible position to be in and something that hasn’t been very present in the United States for decades. But here we are. And I think the team is incredibly excited. I’m incredibly excited.

About how that’s positioning us for that part of the business. But we also continue to advance other very important things that we’re doing. We can’t turn reactors on without fuel. This is something that we discovered and learned very early on. Well, not that fact, but that we needed to do that ourselves to solve that issue and control our destiny on that.

And hence, setting up a leading fuel fabrication capability to make fuel for our reactor, but also to Develop the capability and capacity to make fuel for others. There are other reactors that use the same or very similar types of fuel we use, so we can make fuel for them, but also have the infrastructure, the overhead, just the floor space in the fuel fabrication facility.

That can then be either rented out, leased out, or used to support other fuel forms and types. that we see quite a bit of growing interest and demand in, and which are already, which are being used today but are not being produced or supplied adequately. So we’re pretty excited about how that opens the door, not just to provide Critical capabilities we need, but also capabilities others need, and that opens the door for additional revenues and other partnerships.

And then on top of that, we have the ability on recycling to make not just Transuranic-bearing fuel forms that we can use, but also feedstock for others. And in light of the current fuel markets and the dynamics at hand, just last week we saw a clear endorsement from a variety of companies pursuing this and the government investing in and supporting capabilities to look at various uses of transuranic burnable material, which we can produce not just for our use in our own reactors, but for feedstock for others.

So Very exciting stuff progressing all along the fronts there, and it puts us in a great spot in the fuel business where we are. And then of course on the isotope side, while we continue to learn from the Groves 1 experience and apply that forward, continue to deepen our buildup of the muscles needed to actually move from isotope production to isotope shipping.

And very excited about how we’re seeing ourselves be positioned there with a huge amount of opportunities set to open in front of us. We’ve not lived in a world of isotopic abundance in probably 50 to 60 years or longer.

And we’re hoping to change that. And what that can change is a fundamental rethink about how we use these things, how we develop drugs and treatments.

If you combine the capabilities of computational biology and AI to then the capability of having diverse and flexibly produced isotopes, you can open entirely new frontiers for drug discovery and development, which we can be anchored into, which is an incredibly exciting thing for the business, both just from a human impact side, but also from an economic side and perspective.

And I think at the whole and the highest level, what we see happening is A generalized shift into recognizing that the key things that need to happen across the entire nuclear value chain for nuclear to be successful, and we are uniquely positioned in our uniquely executing to enable and support those things, whether it be by offtake, by partnering, by investing and doing with offtake or doing ourselves or a mix of those things so that we are ensuring that those things are functioning for our benefits And then also having economic upside associated with some of those activities for the benefits of nuclear at large.

And that’s a huge benefit, obviously, for Oklo specifically because we’re tying in the success ourselves and the aspects of the success for nuclear everywhere. And we do that so that we guarantee we can build what we need to build.

And then get the associated benefits of opening that ecosystem up. So it’s an exciting time for where things stand and appreciate folks joining us. Craig said it earlier, so I decided I’d save it till here.

I did welcome our second child who’s approaching 4 weeks old. Not getting as much sleep as I was before. Not losing sleep though to fuel. Losing Sleep more to the baby, but on the other hand, having more time to think about how we continue to solve these things and kind of scale into these opportunities as we see and have the ability to look around corners and get in front of those as much as we can.

But again, I could not be more excited about seeing nuclear coming to meet the opportunities and the challenges. But rather seeing an entire ecosystem and broad capital mobilize and actual innovation coming in and challenging the cost paradigms and bringing these things forward.

talked about the cost of Groves 1. When I grew up in the nuclear industry, when I was younger, when I was looking at isotope reactors and I was hearing presentations, the lowest numbers I saw people talk about were $300, $400, $500 million. And that was pre-inflation 15 years ago and we were able to do what we did for around $75 billion all in.

That’s a pretty impressive achievement and an indicator for how we see and how nuclear can be significantly disrupted. And I just think that’s one of the most exciting things in front of Oklo today. So thank you for the time and look forward to talking to you the next time.

OPERATOR: This concludes today’s call. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.

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