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Borusan Ventures, yüzer platformlarda küçük modüler nükleer reaktörler geliştiren Bluecore Energy'nin 50 milyon dolarlık yatırım turuna katıldı.

Deniz üstü nükleer enerji sistemleri geliştiren ABD merkezli Bluecore Energy, Borusan Grubu’nun kurumsal girişim sermayesi şirketi Borusan Ventures'tan yatırım aldı. Bluecore Energy’nin Silverton Partners liderliğinde gerçekleşen 50 milyon dolarlık tohum yatırım turuna Borusan Ventures’ın yanı sıra Slauson & Co, Harlem Capital Partners, Precursor Ventures ve LMNT Ventures ile VC ve melek yatırımcılar olmak üzere çeşitli yatırımcılar katıldı.

Yüzer platformlar üzerinde küçük modüler nükleer reaktörler geliştiren ABD merkezli Bluecore Energy, Silverton Partners liderliğinde 50 milyon dolar yatırım aldı. Yatırım turuna Borusan...

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Bluecore's small modular reactors can sit miles away from ports, connected via subsea cables.

Грузовая баржа у причала порта Лонг-Бич. На ней — не контейнеры, а стальной корпус реакторной установки. Компания Bluecore Energy называет это «атомной электростанцией, которую можно перевезти». В сентябре 2026 года она собрала на эту идею $50 млн от Silverton Partners, а за лето — суммарно $60 млн, и стала первым в США стартапом по малым модульным реакторам (SMR), чей штаб расположен прямо в крупном порту. ХРОНИКА: МОРСКОЙ АТОМ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1962 ──── 1973 ──── 2019 ──── 2026 ──── 2026 ──── 2026 🚢 📜 ⚓ 📋 💸 ◉ СЕЙЧАС NS Меморан- ПАТЭС NRC+ Bluecore Bluecore Savan- дум NRC «Академ- Берег. $10M $50M nah и БО ик Ломо- охрана пре-сид сид носов Хроника: от атомного торгового судна до баржи-электростанции. Источники: TechCrunch, NRC, Bloomberg Law. Шестьдесят лет назад атом перевозил грузы. Теперь атом хотят перевозить как груз — и ставить у берега там, где нужна электроэнергия. ## Почему атом вернулся на воду Идея не нова: в 1970-х в США существовала программа плавучих атомных станций, а в конце 2019 года Росатом включил в сеть ПАТЭС «Академик Ломоносов» в Певеке — единственную действующую плавучую АЭС в мире. Bluecore переоткрывает этот формат через три силы, которых у прошлых проектов не было. Первая — дата-центры. Энергопотребление центров обработки данных в США растёт так, что порты и малые города не успевают строить подстанции. Мобильный реактор снимает проблему подключения: баржа пришвартовалась, кабель ушёл на берег, электроэнергия пошла. Вторая — смена правил. В июне 2026 года Комиссия по ядерному регулированию (NRC) и Береговая охрана США подписали новый меморандум о координации гражданских морских ядерных проектов. Предыдущая рамка действовала с 1973 года. Третья — цена углерода и графики. Порт Лонг-Бич поставил цель электрификации к 2050 году; его CEO Ноэль Хасегаба говорит, что порту понадобятся «сотни дополнительных мегаватт». Баржа-реактор закрывает этот спрос без десятилетних строек на суше. ## Kofi Asante: из Uber Freight — в атом Основатель Bluecore — Кофи Асанте. До атома он работал в Uber Freight и Powerloop, ел в Elroy Air и в программе электрических лодок порта Лонг-Бич. В марте 2026 года у него была баржа и идея. В июле — $10 млн пре-сид от Slauson & Co. и статус первого чернокожего основателя атомной компании в США. В сентябре — $50 млн. > ВМС занимаются этим уже 70 лет и ни разу не имели аварии. С конвейером малых модульных реакторов, которые быстро разворачиваются на воде, есть путь к чистой энергии для большей части страны.— Кофи Асанте, основатель и CEO Bluecore Energy Команда — бывшие офицеры атомных подводных лодок ВМС США плюс инженеры из SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, Toyota, Rivian и Uber. Это сочетание предсказуемо: безопасность реактора проектируют военные атомщики, а цепочку поставок — автомобильщики. «Полгода назад мы строили фундамент. Сегодня у нас есть капитал, команда, железо и самые важные институты ядерной и морской отрасли, работающие вместе с нами», — говорит Асанте. ## Технология: десять мегаватт на плаву Первый продукт Bluecore — водоохлаждаемый реактор на 10 MWe. Перезаправка — раз в несколько лет. Масштабирование — добавлением барж, а не перестройкой. Инженерный выбор консервативный: лёгководная физика, отработанная семь десятилетий, без экзотических солевых или газовых схем. $60M два раунда за 2 месяца ↑ 600% к пре-сид #### Bluecore Energy: совокупные инвестиции $10M пре-сид (июль) + $50M в сид-раунде (сентябрь) с лид-инвестором Silverton Partners · _Сумма из раскрытий компании, 2026_ Один блок на 10 MWe питает ~15 000 домов или крупный порт. Цифра скромная для атомной отрасли, и это сознательно: SMR продают не рекордной мощностью, а временем до запуска. ## Регуляторный рубеж: Калифорния, NRC и серая зона Показательная коллизия: штат, где первая плавучая атомная электростанция США может появиться у берегов, — Калифорния. На суше новый атом в штате запрещён с 1970-х. В море — правовая серая зона, в которой у Bluecore появляется окно. В августе компания официально начала с NRC и Береговой охраной процесс сертификации конструкции. Лицензионный руководитель Bluecore Меган Мойетт — бывший офицер-подводник; она называет регуляторный момент «попаданием в самое время». Путь до действующей баржи — годы. Bloomberg Law отмечает: реактор на плаву в Лонг-Бич — это «ещё несколько лет» от текущего статуса. Деньги нужны именно на регуляторику, топливо и найм, а не на быстрый запуск. #### Что должно сойтись, чтобы баржа заработала Сертификация конструкции в NRC и Береговой охране Портовое разрешение Лонг-Бич и местные слушания Поставки топлива и договор с национальной лабораторией Подключение к сети кабелем через дно гавани ## Конкуренты и рынок Bluecore выходит не в пустоту. Last Energy собрал $100 млн на наземный микрореактор на схожей реакторной физике. X-energy, поддержанный Amazon, готовит IPO с оценкой около $814 млн. Рынок SMR, по оценке Market.us, вырастет с $3,5 млрд в 2025 году до $14,1 млрд к 2035-му. Дифференциатор Bluecore — мобильность. Реактор сам едет к спросу вместо того, чтобы к нему вели линию электропередачи. Это разворачивает логику атомной инфраструктуры: электростанция больше не объект, а транспортное средство. Риски очевидны. Морской атом коммерчески не доказан вне ПАТЭС. Стоимость плавучей площадки выше сухопутной на метр мощности. И любой инцидент в порту — репутационный удар по всей категории. ## Портовая логистика как конкурентное окно Порт Лонг-Бич — не случайная площадка: это крупнейший контейнерный хаб западного побережья США. Для него электропитание кранов, холодильных терминалов и будущего флота на электротяге — вопрос пропускной способности. Баржа-реактор у пирса снимает нагрузку с городской сети и не занимает землю, которой в порту почти не осталось. ## Что дальше Асанте называет главным вызовом не регуляторику, а цепочку поставок: «Мы уже заказываем ядерное топливо для партнёра в национальной лаборатории». Стратегия команды из SpaceX и Rivian — заранее затягивать контракты на критичные компоненты, пока рынок не перегрелся. 🎯 Ключевой вывод 1: мобильный атом превращает электростанцию из объекта в сервис доставки — реактор едет к спросу, а не спрос к сети Ключевой вывод 2: решающий фактор — не технология, а регуляторная рамка: меморандум NRC и Береговой охраны 2026 года открыл ворота, которых не было 50 лет Ключевой вывод 3: на горизонте 3–5 лет следить стоит не за Bluecore, а за тем, пустит ли Калифорния первую плавучую АЭС — это задаст прецедент для всех портов мира Калифорния когда-то запретила атом на суше. Теперь у её берегов может вырасти первый плавучий реактор США. Ирония истории — часть коммерческой ставки Bluecore. Bluecore Energy собрал $50M на плавучие реакторы Первый отраслевой репортаж: цифры раунда, команда, детали реактора и цитаты основателя. TechCrunch Основной источник по событию: $50M seed, 10 MWe, цитаты Асанте. Плавучий атом: путь регуляторного одобрения в США Журналистский анализ процедур NRC и Береговой охраны и срока до реального запуска. Bloomberg Law Источник по регуляторному треку: лицензирование, портовые разрешения, временные рамки. Bluecore Energy: $60M и рынок SMR как стратегическая ставка Инвесторский список, контекст рынка малых модульных реакторов и цифры конкурентов. Tech Funding News Оценка рынка SMR ($3.5B → $14.1B), раунды, связи с командой.

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Plugging into the ocean? Step inside Bluecore Energy to see how a prototype nuclear power plant on a barge actually works.

Learn how floating nuclear power plants work as Bluecore Energy emerges from stealth to build a modular reactor on a barge.

A Caoa Changan aproveitou o lançamento do CS55 para anunciar detalhes de seus planos para o Brasil. O grupo pretende alcançar forte presença no país nos próximos anos e, desde já, promete portfólio amplo para alcançar diferentes segmentos do mercado. A ideia é explorar desde o nicho de carros a combustão e híbridos plug-in, como já acontece, e expandir a linha para híbridos plenos, híbridos em série e até modelos puramente elétricos. Em comunicado, a marca explica que a plataforma “BlueCore Ultra-Hybrid” será a grande responsável por pautar o projeto de eletrificação pensado para o Brasil e terá características próprias para o mercado nacional, como a compatibilidade com o etanol. A base já é usada pela empresa na China e, desde que foi lançada, equipou mais de 2,2 milhões de veículos vendidos em todo o mundo. Caoa Changan CS55 é montado em Anápolis (GO) Renato Durães/Autoesporte O conjunto formado pela BlueCore Ultra-Hybrid é baseado em um motor a combustão (chamado de BlueCore) combinado a sistema híbrido batizado de Ultra-Hybrid. Ambos são construídos sobre a arquitetura iDE-H (Híbrida Inteligente com Eletrificação Profunda) e formam a plataforma de conjuntos eletrificados da marca. A matriz é altamente adaptável e pode equipar diferentes veículos híbridos, desde os plenos (HEV) até os mais sofisticados plug-in (PHEV) e híbridos de autonomia estendida (REEV). Além disso, a base pode sustentar veículos puramente elétricos (BEVs). + Quer receber as principais notícias do setor automotivo pelo seu WhatsApp? Clique aqui e participe do Canal da Autoesporte CS55 é o primeiro híbrido flex da Changan O CS55, SUV médio mais recente da Caoa Changan no Brasil, já é baseado na plataforma BlueCore Ultra-Hybrid. O modelo, inclusive, é o primeiro veículo PHEV flex da marca no mundo. Caoa Changan CS55 tem consumo urbano de 42,2 km/l e 1.200 km de autonomia Renato Durães/Autoesporte Mecanicamente, combina o motor 1.5 turbo TGDI flex a um propulsor elétrico de alta capacidade, gerando 286 cv de potência e 47 kgfm de torque. O câmbio é automático DHT (Dedicated Hybrid Transmission). A bateria é de 18,4 kWh e a capacidade de recarga é de até 6,6 kW em eletropostos de corrente alternada (AC). Dados de fábrica indicam aceleração de 0 a 100 km/h em 7,2 segundos e consumo urbano de 42,2 km/l. A autonomia total é de até 1.200 km. O modelo pode ser operado a partir de três modos: Elétrico (0 a 70 km/h), Híbrido (atuação conjunta dos motores elétrico e a combustão) e Autonomia Estendida (o motor 1.5 atua como um gerador para alimentar a bateria de alta tensão durante o trajeto). Caoa Changan CS55 tem painel digital e central multimídia conjugados Divulgação Em dimensões, são 4,55 metros de comprimento, 1,87 m de largura, 1,67 m de altura e 2,66 m de entre-eixos. O porta-malas oferece 525 litros na medição VDA, por blocos sólidos, e tem iluminação interna e estepe de uso temporário. A montagem acontece na fábrica da Caoa em Anápolis (GO), onde também são produzidos os Caoa Chery Tiggo 5X, Tiggo 7 e Tiggo 8 em regime CKD. Quer ter acesso a conteúdos exclusivos da Autoesporte? É só clicar aqui para acessar a revista digital. Mais Lidas

A company developing nuclear energy solutions atop a floating barge has announced a major funding achievement. Bluecore Energy, based in Long Beach, Calif., announced the closing of a $50 million seed financing round September 8. The achievement follows an initial $10 million pre-seed round after the company emerged from stealth in July. The funding round was led by Silverton Partners, with investors including Slauson & Company, Harlem Capital, Precursor Ventures, LMNT and other existing contributors. New investors included companies such as MaC Ventures, Collab Capital, Vanderbilt and Scribble, as well as former leaders of Google, Tesla, Amazon and Uber. “Bluecore Energy is pursuing a fundamentally new approach to delivering reliable, zero-emission power to some of the world’s most energy-intensive and strategically important locations,” Silverton Partners said. “We believe the combination of proven water-cooled reactor technology and a floating, modular platform has the potential to open an entirely new market for nuclear energy, and we’re excited to partner with the team as they bring that vision to life.” Bluecore Energy, founded by Kofi Asante, announced itself publicly three months ago after securing initial pre-seed funding and establishing its headquarters. “Six months ago, we were building the foundation,” Asante said. “Today, we...

On 15 September, Kofi Asante walked Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson past an unfuelled reactor pressure vessel parked at the edge of the busiest seaport complex in the United States. The vessel is a showpiece. It exists to make one argument: that Asante's reactor can be assembled on a dock, rather than welded together inland over most of a decade. Asante runs Bluecore Energy. The company is roughly a year old, headquartered at the Port of Long Beach, and on 8 September it closed a $50 million seed round led by Silverton Partners. Add the $10 million pre-seed that Slauson & Co led in July, and disclosed funding reaches $60 million. Its thesis fits in a sentence: take a conventional water-cooled reactor, shrink it to a fraction of a commercial plant's output, and mount it on a barge that can be towed to whoever needs the power. 🎯 The reactor is deliberately boring — a pressurised water reactor (PWR) of a type the US Navy has run at sea for seven decades. The novel part is the licensing route: putting the plant on a barge moves the first-of-a-kind questions into maritime jurisdiction, where the US Coast Guard shares authority with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The $50 million buys engineering, testing and a regulatory process that remains years from a fuelled barge. Its own framing — deliver zero-emission energy "as safely and quickly as possible" — is a speed claim, not a capacity claim. The customers it names are the ones with the least patience for grid interconnection queues: ports, coastal industry and AI data centres. ## The barge, not the reactor The machine is called the BC-12: a pressurised water reactor rated at 45 megawatts thermal (MWt), producing 15 megawatts electric (MWe) gross and 10 MWe net. Ocean water cools it in a closed loop, which removes the cooling towers that make land-based nuclear plants expensive to site. The unit refuels every few years. It can be moored or anchored like an offshore oil rig and tied to shore by subsea cables. Ten megawatts net. That number is small. It covers roughly 15,000 homes, a fraction of what a major port draws on a peak afternoon. Asante's pitch rests on modularity instead of scale: add barges as demand grows, rather than financing one enormous plant up front and waiting a decade for it to pay back. The pedigree behind the hardware is unusually narrow for a company this young. Bluecore's staff includes former Navy nuclear submarine officers and engineers recruited from SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, Toyota, Rivian and Uber. Asante himself came from Uber Freight. When Bluecore left stealth in July, it became the first nuclear company headquartered at a major US port. > The Navy is doing this as we speak, for the last 70 years, and has never had an accident. We just made it smaller, so you can actually move things around in a way that doesn't take years — or a new set of infrastructure — but days.— Kofi Asante, founder and CEO, Bluecore Energy ## Ten megawatts and a licensing shortcut The sharper decision sits in the regulatory file, not in the reactor hall. Its design is conventional on purpose. Its pre-application slides to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission make the case directly: the first-of-a-kind questions concentrate on the marine deployment platform, not the nuclear design. A PWR that the Navy has operated at sea since the 1950s is a known quantity to regulators. A reactor bolted to a barge is not. That framing splits the approval work into two tracks. The NRC keeps authority over the nuclear system. The Coast Guard takes the lead on the vessel, its stability and its operation in navigable water. Bluecore filed a pre-application engagement request on 22 July 2026, held a formal kickoff with the NRC on 27 July and published non-proprietary kickoff slides on 11 August. It says it has also opened a partnership with the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration and is working with both agencies on product design. The name on the paperwork is the Nautilus Floating Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP), a nod to the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear submarine. The company had secured its first barge by July and says it has launched two. The capital is chasing that sequence. Silverton Partners led the seed, joined by returning backers Slauson & Co, Harlem Capital, Precursor Ventures, LMNT, Visible Hands and Karman Ventures, alongside Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, Kevin Hart's Hartbeat Ventures and Markham Valley Ventures, where the actor Simu Liu is a general partner. It says the money funds hardware testing, regulatory and classification work, manufacturing and hiring. Fundraising was not supposed to happen this year. Asante told TechCrunch the calls kept arriving after the pre-seed, and the round closed oversubscribed in eight weeks. > Six months ago, we were building the foundation. Today, we have the capital, the team, the hardware, and some of the most important institutions in nuclear and maritime working alongside us. Our focus now is simple: create and deliver zero-emission energy as safely and quickly as possible.— Kofi Asante, via ESG Today ## The gap between the press release and first power Every energy sector runs the same test: measure the distance between the announcement and the first electron. Bluecore sits early on that curve. Bloomberg's report on the round noted the company remains a few years from a fuelled barge serving the Port of Long Beach. No nuclear fuel has been ordered. Marine classification, insurance and port safety approvals lie ahead. The design has entered pre-application engagement, not formal NRC review. The peer set is crowded and well funded. Kairos Power, TerraPower and NuScale are further through the licensing queue on land. We covered Valar Atomics in August, when a small reactor briefly powered an Nvidia chip and a partnership with Nvidia followed. Earlier this month we wrote about Aalo Atomics, which reached criticality with a factory-built reactor. Those milestones carry less commercial scope than Bluecore's ambition. They also sit closer to physical proof. Demand is not the constraint. Ports are electrifying berths and cargo equipment while their grids face interconnection queues measured in years. Data centre operators are signing power contracts faster than utilities can build generation. A barge that arrives with its own reactor answers a real bottleneck, provided it clears regulators and the fuel supply chain can feed it — still a live question for advanced reactors. The Port of Long Beach intends to find out. It hosted the 15 September panel where Asante toured the vessel with the mayor, and its chief executive, Noel Hacegaba, has publicly welcomed the company. Long Beach bills itself as a green port and has been the most willing major US port to entertain small modular reactors. > The Port of Long Beach is our priority, because it's the first port in the country to be publicly enthusiastic about incorporating small modular reactors, but we've gotten inbound from other ports and even data centers.— Kofi Asante, via Axios That inbound interest is the signal to watch. A funded design with a regulator's calendar is a project. Signed customers make it a business. It holds the first and is still selling the second — a gap that, in nuclear, has always taken longer to close than the pitch implies. What stayed with me after the Long Beach panel was the pressure vessel itself. It is the least glamorous object in the story: unfuelled steel, built to be opened and inspected rather than admired. The reactor concept inside it is decades old. The innovation is where Bluecore chose to float it, and which regulators it convinced to look. ## Sources BlueCore Energy BC-12 / Nautilus pre-application package The primary regulatory record: pre-application engagement request for the Nautilus floating nuclear power plant and non-proprietary kickoff slides describing the 45 MWt BC-12 reactor. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission The design's first-of-a-kind questions sit on the barge, not the reactor — this filing is where that argument is made to regulators. Bluecore Energy raises $50 million for maritime nuclear system Bloomberg's account of the seed round and the sober timeline: the company is still a few years away from a fuelled barge serving the Port of Long Beach. Bloomberg The gap between a closed round and first power is the metric this whole sector gets judged on. US maritime nuclear energy company raises USD50 million Industry-press confirmation of the round and the full investor list, from Silverton Partners and Slauson & Co through to Hartbeat Ventures. World Nuclear News Specialist nuclear coverage is the cleanest check on whether a floating-reactor claim survives contact with the licensing queue.

Bluecore Energy is moving its floating nuclear power concept deeper into the development and regulatory phase, securing its first barge and beginning formal engagement with federal regulators as it works...

Bluecore Energy, a developer of small modular, water-cooled reactors designed to operate aboard floating barges, has announced the close of a USD50 million seed financing to accelerate development, testing, and deployment of its floating nuclear energy systems.  ;

Bluecore Energy is moving its floating nuclear power concept deeper into the development and regulatory phase, securing its first barge and beginning formal engagement with federal regulators as it works...

US maritime nuclear startup Bluecore Energy has raised $50m to accelerate development of floating nuclear power systems as Washington’s push to bring atomic energy into commercial shipping gathers momentum. The Silverton Partners-led seed round follows $10m raised when Long Beach-based Bluecore eme…

By Laura Curtis (Bloomberg) — A Southern California startup with plans to deploy floating nuclear power plants may be one step closer to providing electricity to the busiest seaport complex in...

Bluecore Energy announced a $50 million seed round led by Silverton Partners to build small modular nuclear reactors on floating barges.

Bluecore Energy, a startup building small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) on floating barges, announced an oversubscribed $50 million seed round led by Silverton Partners. Within just nine months of launch, Bluecore Energy has rapidly accelerated its path toward floating nuclear power by securing a port terminal, receiving its first barge, and starting construction on a test reactor. Designed specifically for commercial applications, the reactor incorporates multiple layers of protective shielding and continuous water-based cooling to ensure safe, resilient operation out at sea. The company’s founder, Kofi Asante, announced in the LinkedIn post: “Our focus is simple. Create and deliver zero-emission energy as safely and quickly as possible. Over 3 billion people live within an hour of water. We want to power them all.” Powering roughly 15,000 homes Bluecore Energy emerged from stealth on 21 July with $10 million in pre-seed funding to deploy floating SMRs directly on mobile barges. The startup is the first SMR developer based inside a major U.S. shipping hub, operating directly out of its headquarters at the Port of Long Beach, California. The goal is to build a 10 MWe water-cooled reactor system using established maritime nuclear physics enclosed in steel pressure vessels and concrete shielding...

Maritime nuclear startup Bluecore Energy Inc. today announced a $50 million seed round, seven weeks after the company formally launched with $10 million behind a plan to mount small reactors on barges. Most of the new capital will go toward getting its first system engineered, tested and licensed. Bluecore is designing compact water-cooled reactors that sit on floating platforms and dock where grid capacity has run short. The first system is being designed to produce roughly 10 megawatts of continuous power and to run for years between refuelings, with further units added as demand grows. Ports, coastal infrastructure and artificial intelligence data centers are the intended customers, and the company has said it eventually wants to power cargo ships. Since July the company has secured its first barge (pictured) and started formal regulatory engagement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Coast Guard. The company is also developing a non-fueled reactor module prototype at the Port of Long Beach to validate monitoring, sensor and control systems. The two agencies have a memorandum of understanding that coordinates requirements for the design, construction, operation and oversight of civilian floating nuclear plants and nuclear propulsion systems. The NRC has said existing...