A microreactor purpose-built for the port.
5 MWe / 15 MWth · sealed heat-pipe HALEU TRISO core. One installed asset delivers shore power to berthed vessels and 850 °C process heat to a co-located green-ammonia bunker-fuel synthesis loop.
TidalCore, in motion.
Every NRC-tracked microreactor today targets data centers, defense bases, mining, or the grid.None of them target the port.
Maritime moves 90% of world trade and emits ~1 Gt CO₂ a year. The highest-value firm-power-and-heat customer on the planet is sitting unserved. TidalCore is the only concept sized, sited, and regulator-mapped specifically for it.
The triad nobody else owns
Shore power + 800–900 °C industrial heat + co-located green-ammonia synthesis. Existing microreactors solve at most one of the three.
Engineered for Part 53
Inherently subcritical on loss of coolant. Maps cleanly onto §53.220 performance criteria. Manufacturing License pathway from day one.
Solid-state primary loop
Sodium heat pipes — no pumps, no LOCA. Same physics class as eVinci and the DOE MARVEL test reactor already under NRC engagement.
Berthed in the secure perimeter.Wired into the dock.
A single TidalCore vault occupies the footprint of two stacked shipping containers on a graving-dock pad. The switchyard feeds shore-power umbilicals to berthed vessels; the high-temperature steam loop feeds an adjacent Haber–Bosch loop producing green ammonia bunker fuel on-site — roughly half the levelized cost of grid-electrolysis ammonia.
Hex-prism HALEU TRISO monolith surrounded by twelve sodium heat pipes, sealed inside a single-piece SS316 pressure vessel — factory-built, rail-shippable, no on-site refuelling.
Full specifications →Read the 18-page concept dossier.
Core physics, plant architecture, port integration, the safety case, the NRC Part 53 licensing roadmap, USCG / IMO interfaces, and a techno-economic snapshot — all in one document.