Verification register Energy, Climate, Space & Materials
Current reading
Readiness band and full integer triple
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
Readiness band
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Primary summary from verified readiness
- Confidence
- 74% · stale
- Computed at
- 2026-08-20T10:54:08.300967+00:00
- Claimed
- 45
- Reported
- 43
- Verified
- 38
- Gap
- +7
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
- Strong commercial validation (Google/TVA PPA, NRC permits, fresh groundbreaking) but the technology is pre-operational with a demonstrated FOAK schedule slip on the sister unit; no power expected before ~2030.
- Next
- Watch for Hermes 1 completion/first criticality (now expected 2028) and the Hermes operating license submission as the de-risking gate before treating KP-FHR as a viable firm-power option.
Constraints
Blockers
No named blocker is present in the current public projection.
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 10
- Tier 1
- 2
- Tier 2
- 6
- Tier 3
- 2
- Supports
- 5
- Contradicts
- 4
- Context
- 1
- Latest observed
- 2026-04-22
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Publication record
Revisions
Initial public reading
- 2026-07-19 Reading moved from watch to watch.