Verification register Energy, Climate, Space & Materials
Current reading
Readiness band and full integer triple
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
Readiness band
Emerging
Primary summary from verified readiness
- Confidence
- 80% · stale
- Computed at
- 2026-08-20T10:54:35.799004+00:00
- Claimed
- 35
- Reported
- 34
- Verified
- 31
- Gap
- +4
Public ambition and stated capability
Observed practitioner reporting
Independently supported evidence
Claimed leads verified
Evidence strength Strong
Decision
What the current evidence supports
Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20
Track; not yet
- Why
- A genuine, DOE-recognized first-of-kind criticality milestone in under 12 months, but the demonstrated artifact produces no electricity and commercial viability hinges on unproven full-power operation and licensing 2-4 years out.
- Next
- Re-evaluate after the 2027 full-power Mark-1 run at INL MFC-793 with the N2 recuperated Brayton cycle (power-conversion-system testing said to be 'months away'), and watch for NRC licensing progress before treating microreactor power as procurable.
Constraints
Blockers
No named blocker is present in the current public projection.
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 14
- Tier 1
- 4
- Tier 2
- 8
- Tier 3
- 2
- Supports
- 6
- Contradicts
- 4
- Context
- 4
- Latest observed
- 2026-06-05
Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.
Publication record
Revisions
Initial public reading
- 2026-07-19 Reading moved from emerging to emerging.