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
- 85% · fresh
- Computed at
- 2026-10-29T16:46:13.635014+00:00
- Claimed
- 30
- Reported
- 30
- Verified
- 30
- Gap
- 0
Public ambition and stated capability
Observed practitioner reporting
Independently supported evidence
Claimed and verified align
Evidence strength Critical
Decision
What the current evidence supports
Human editorial judgment · 2026-10-29
Track; not yet
- Why
- The only hard milestone is a DOE design-safety agreement (NSDA) dated 2026-10-23. It is a real regulatory gate and follows Mark-0's criticality (2026-06-04, eight months after its NSDA), and BWXT fuel supply (initial 1 MTU, 2026-10-27) adds supply-chain substance. But Mark-1 has not been built or run, electricity production is untested, Mark-0 itself generated no power, the operating campaign is a 2027 company target, and the evidence is almost entirely company announcements and trade press.
- Next
- Watch for DOE approval of Mark-1's Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis and Documented Safety Analysis, the start of construction at INL, and the first power-generation data from the planned 2027 campaign.
Constraints
Blockers
No named blocker is present in the current public projection.
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 7
- Tier 1
- 2
- Tier 2
- 5
- Tier 3
- 0
- Supports
- 4
- Contradicts
- 0
- Context
- 3
- Latest observed
- 2026-10-27
Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.
Publication record
Revisions
Initial public reading
- 2026-10-29 Initial recorded band: emerging.