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Hyperion Power Generation
Hyperion Power Generation is commercializing an innovative new kind of small, self-contained, inherently safe nuclear power reactor, based on a design licensed from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Hyperion Power Module is 25MW (enough electricity to power 20,000 homes) and is specifically designed for remote communities, industry, mining, and military facilities. Each Hyperion Power Plant will cost $100 million, making it the most affordable way to generate baseload electricity in its target markets.
John R. "Grizz" Deal is CEO of Hyperion Power Generation. Grizz has more than twenty years of experience in technology commercialization and fast-growing ventures, in both product development and chief executive roles. Grizz was previously the managing director at Purple Mountain Ventures, serving a dozen international firms on product development, capital expansion, and marketing. Grizz also serves as a director of the U.S. National Lab Seed Fund, a venture capital fund focused on innovations developed by the U.S. Department of Energy laboratory complex. Grizz is the former TVC entrepreneur-in-residence with the U.S. Department of Energy/NNSA, visiting entrepreneur at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), chief marketing officer for Space Imaging, the founder and former CEO of LizardTech, and a consulting scientist at LANL.