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Standard Nuclear

Active Private HQ: Oak Ridge, Tennessee Founded 2024

Oak Ridge, TN TRISO fuel company built from Ultra Safe Nuclear's fuel assets after USNC's Oct 2024 Chapter 11. Closed a $140M Series A (Jan 2026) and was selected for DOE's fuel pilot program; USNC's space line (the DIU-selected EmberCore radioisotope battery) was dispersed in the bankruptcy and its status is unclear.

40.3
ARI Composite
Very High Risk
#54 of 56
Peer Rank
Manufacturing cohort
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Total Launches
No flights tracked
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Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

40.3
ARI composite · Very High Risk
Peer rank#54 of 56
Peer groupManufacturing
Data coverage67%
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SECTOR POSITION

Rank within sector#54 of 56
Tracked peers56

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameStandard Nuclear, Inc.
OwnershipPrivate
HeadquartersOak Ridge, Tennessee
CountryUS
Founded2024
CEOKurt Terrani
AliasesStandard Nuclear, Ultra Safe Nuclear, USNC
Key programsTRISO fuel production, EmberCore radioisotope battery heritage (status unclear post-bankruptcy)
Gov customersDOE
Last fundingSeries A, $140M (Jan 2026), after $28M USNC asset purchase (Oct 2024)
IPO statusPrivate

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · TechCrunch documents the USNC asset purchase; $140M Series A (Jan 28, 2026) per verification pass - corrects the stale roster figure.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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