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About Kalium Energy Technology
Building America's domestic, proliferation-resistant nuclear fuel supply
KET was founded by Dr. Michael Simpson in 2026 with the mission to enable the commercialization of groundbreaking research from his lab at the University of Utah. Specifically, Dr. Simpson's research group has completed initial feasibility testing on a revolutionary new approach to recycling spent nuclear fuel from commercial light water reactors called Pyrox.
KET is currently raising capital in addition to applying for non-dilutive grants to complete the final phase of lab-scale testing using uranium and surrogates for transuranic actinides and fission products in the Utah Pyrometallurgy Laboratory. It has an exclusive license from the University of Utah for technology developed in Dr. Simpson's lab. It also has NDAs with two major advanced nuclear reactor companies.
Dr. Michael F. SimpsonDr. Michael Simpson on LinkedIn
Founder & Chief Scientist
Professor of Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah
Inventor of the Pyrox process and one of the foremost experts in pyrometallurgical fuel recycling, with 17 years at U.S. national laboratories.
30+ years in fuel recycling research17 years at national labs200+ publications24 Ph.D. students advised
1991
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Caltech
1996
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Princeton
1996–2005
Researcher, Argonne National Laboratory-West
2005–2013
Researcher, Idaho National Laboratory
2013–present
Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah
2026
Founded Kalium Energy Technology