Nuclear microreactor powers NVIDIA RTX Spark Live on Air

Recently, startup Valar Atomics broadcast the live launch of the Ward 250 nuclear microreactor. The microreactor was utilized for powering the NVIDIA RTX Spark PC.

Live presentation of the reactor

During the live presentation of the revelational experiment, the reactor operated at 37% of the total capacity, and it powered RTX Spark PC, which was functioning on the basis of Blackwell processor. Also, at this event, a partnership between NVIDIA and Valar Atomics was announced. At the presentation, the reactor was powering the server, and anyone in the audience could interact with the site nuclearwebsite.com that was loaded from this specific server.

The CEO of Valar Atomics explained the occurring processes in the following way: the NVIDIA chip is now connected to a circuit in OCS, which then runs through the cable into the reactor hall. In the reactor hall, the thermal energy is generated, and this energy is dissipated by the cooling system. Then hot helium flows to the thermoelectric generator, which is powering the Blackwell chip.

The startup is claiming that its electricity generation was the first to be successfully achieved with the modular reactors. However, there are also companies such as Antares Nuclear and Deployable Energy that have also generated electricity with their own small reactors.

Due to the high consumption of electricity by the data centers, lots of companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and plenty of others have recently invested in modular nuclear reactors.

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