The NRC denied Oklo's first custom combined license application and requested additional information; Oklo has been pursuing a subsequent licensing path.
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Updated Jul 28, 2026
Oklo Inc. is a public, early-stage advanced-nuclear technology company developing fast-fission powerhouses and an integrated fuel-cycle and radioisotope platform. Its build-own-operate model is intended to let customers purchase reliable clean electricity and heat through long-term power-purchase agreements rather than buying reactors.
Primary product
Aurora Powerhouse: a sodium-cooled fast-fission plant designed to produce up to 75 MWe, operate continuously, and use fresh or recycled nuclear fuel.
Founded
2013
Headquarters
3190 Coronado Dr., Santa Clara, California 95054, United States
Team size
Approximately 200-300; 207 full-time employees as of December 31, 2025 (205 U.S. and 2 Canada); a July 2026 company fact sheet says approximately 300.
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Electric power generation
64 jobs at Oklo
Sub-industry
Advanced nuclear energy; fast reactors; nuclear fuel recycling; radioisotope production
Offices
Business model
Stage
Public, early-commercialization / pre-revenue advanced-energy company
Total raised
$2.1B
Latest round
At-the-market equity financing · Jan 2026
Latest amount
$1.2B
Jun 2025 · Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and BofA Securities
Business Combination / De-SPAC
Jul 2023 · AltC Acquisition Corp.
Nov 2018 · DCVC
Aug 2014 · Y Combinator
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
William Goodwin
Chief Legal and Strategy Officer
Patrick Schweiger
Senior Technical Advisor; formerly Chief Technology Officer
Founders
Co-Founder and COO
Investors
Oklo describes its culture around ownership, collaboration, humility, and pathfinding, with a highly technical, founder-led, mission-oriented team. It reports top-5%-of-companies employee satisfaction based on Lattice Pulse survey data. Work is distributed, with both headquarters-based and remote roles.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public executive employment agreements disclosed base salaries of $500,000 for the CEO and $400,000 each for the COO and CFO, plus substantial equity grants. Broader employee compensation ranges were not located. Benefits and equity-oriented long-term financial support are publicly signaled.
Benefits
Pricing
No public standard price list. The intended model is negotiated, long-term PPAs for electricity and potentially heat; customer prepayments or project-specific financing may support deployment.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Pre-revenue or less than $1 million annually; the company had not yet begun commercial powerhouse operations as of the latest filing reviewed.
Estimated monthly visits
97K
The NRC denied Oklo's first custom combined license application and requested additional information; Oklo has been pursuing a subsequent licensing path.
SourceThe U.S. Air Force rescinded a reported $100 million award for an Oklo microreactor project, according to industry coverage.
SourceOklo acquired Atomic Alchemy for approximately $1.0 million in cash plus approximately $27.4 million of stock consideration, expanding into radioisotopes.
SourcePat Schweiger transitioned from CTO to senior technical advisor as Oklo reorganized around separate power, fuel, recycling, and isotope business units.
SourceThe 2025 Form 10-K states that Oklo has not yet constructed a commercial powerhouse or entered into a binding PPA to operate a plant or deliver electricity, leaving substantial licensing, construction, fuel-supply, execution, and funding risk.
SourceOklo / SEC Form 8-K · Apr 2026
Oklo added four directors, named Michael Thompson lead independent director, and transitioned Pat Schweiger from CTO to senior technical advisor.
Business Wire · Mar 2026
The company reported its 2025 financial results and business update, including substantial equity-financing activity and continued investment ahead of commercial deployment.
Oklo / Business Wire · Jan 2026
Meta agreed to support development of a scalable 1.2 GW Ohio campus, including a mechanism to prepay for power and fund project advancement; initial phase is targeted as early as 2030.
Oklo · Jan 2026
Oklo, NVIDIA, and LANL announced collaboration on nuclear-fuel validation, AI-enabled research, and nuclear infrastructure supporting nuclear-powered AI facilities.
Oklo · Jan 2026
Oklo and INL announced collaboration to apply AI-enabled engineering workflows, modeling, simulation, and technical documentation to reactor and fuel-system development.