Company announcements, press releases, and long-form writing on floating nuclear power.
Bluecore emerges from stealth with a team drawn from nuclear, aerospace, maritime and automotive programs — and a plan to put reactors on barges.
Fortune on the Port of Long Beach's push into floating small modular reactors with Bluecore — and why the first U.S. offshore nuclear power may land in the one state that banned it.
The Los Angeles Times on how a tiny startup plans to float nuclear reactors off Long Beach to keep the lights on.
Forbes on Kofi Asante's path to founding Bluecore, the first SMR company headquartered inside a major U.S. port, and his conviction that access to clean energy should be a human right.
AfroTech on Kofi Asante becoming the first Black founder of a nuclear energy company in the U.S., and the oversubscribed round backing floating reactors for ports.
TechCrunch on the pre-seed round and the plan to put small modular, water-cooled reactors on floating barges — enough power for roughly 15,000 homes or a major port.
Axios breaks the news of Bluecore's launch: a $10M pre-seed led by Slauson & Co., with backing from Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures.
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