Company announcements, press releases, and long-form writing on floating nuclear power.
Bluecore Energy secures low-enriched uranium through WMC, held at a U.S. nuclear fuel facility outside California, as it advances NRC and Coast Guard engagement and ABS maritime classification of its first system.
Government, maritime, nuclear, infrastructure and investment leaders came together at Bluecore Energy HQ to discuss what it will take to build the next generation of reliable, zero-emission energy.
U.S. Maritime Administrator Capt. Steve Carmel toured Bluecore's Pier D facility with Kofi Asante and Port CEO Dr. Noel Hacegaba, including a demonstration of the SMR Test Pressure Vessel.
TechCrunch on the oversubscribed $50M seed, closed two months after Bluecore came out of stealth, and the barges, regulators and hiring it funds.
Axios on the $50M round led by Silverton Partners, and reactors that can sit miles offshore and feed the Port of Long Beach by subsea cable.
Bloomberg on Bluecore's $50 million raise to build its first floating, water-cooled nuclear energy system at the Port of Long Beach.
FOX Business's The Big Money Show on Bluecore's plan to put a nuclear reactor on the water off Long Beach — and the panel's surprise that California is where it lands.
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.
Bluecore emerges from stealth with a team drawn from nuclear, aerospace, maritime and automotive programs — and a plan to put reactors on barges.
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