Deployable Energy

Microreactors have always been the holy grail for distributed power.

Clean, energy dense, on-demand. The nuclear age promised abundance and liberty. So why has it failed to date? What are the barriers to mass adoption that has plague micro-nuclear to take its rightful place as the dominate distributed energy system?

At Deployable, we started in 2022 by designing nuclear batteries for subsea and space—a HALEU, TRISO, sodium heat-pipe, reactor concept - cliche. After full supply-chain and techno-economic work, we concluded it wouldn’t mass-produce or mass-deploy due to fuel enrichment constraints, exotic materials and processes, and cost.

So we went back to first principles and designed a system to remove the barriers that keep microreactors from displacing diesel at scale:

1. No higher enrichment (no HALEU).
Enrichment is the global bottleneck by design (non-proliferation). Staying at standard 5% LEU keeps us inside a robust, scalable fuel supply and eases regulatory acceptance.

2. No exotic materials.
Nuclear has been slowed by “materials science projects” (TRISO cladding, metal hydrides, molten salts/metal coolants, superalloys). We use commodity, proven materials (UO₂ fuel, zirconium-alloy cladding, light-water moderation, conventional steels) to ride existing codes, suppliers, and QA.

3. Truly transportable and easy to set up.
Diesel wins on logistics. So do we. Factory-built, containerized modules using standardized 20-ft ISO form factors and standard lifting/haulage. Utilizing existing low enriched fuel transportation supply chain (unlike HALEU that requires new logistics systems and regulations to be constructed). Ensuring minimal site work, minimal laydown, repeatable installation.

4. Cost-effective power conversion at small scale.
We pair the reactor with efficient, compact power conversion Brayton Cycles engineered for 1 MWe-class outputs— leveraging recent advances in these technologies.

5. Regulatory posture: from adversarial to supportive.
By avoiding HALEU and exotic materials, we can align with well-understood LWR physics and industrial norms, shifting regulatory engagement from “novelty skepticism” to “familiar + incremental,” unlocking predictable pathways and faster approvals. Further, recent movements in AI, Energy Transition and national security have made micro nuclear a priority for the US national interest.

The Unity Nuclear Battery is the product of these design principles and learnings that can unlock 100,000 units by 2040 at a delivered power cost of 5c / kWh transforming the energy complex.

In 8 months, we have raised an Angel round, have Capital Factory join the cap table, proved out of core IP moat around our patent and patent pending technology stack. Brought the founding team and first employees on FT. Established our HQ in the US and begun engagement with the DOE, national labs and key partners. Gained a $B LOI for a dual use application.