A nuclear SMR fleet: engineered for bankability
Clean-firm power hubs • U.S.-only • Programmatic fleet
We turn FOAK execution risk into a repeatable underwriting stack. Gating, lender-comfort revenue floors, and risk-transfer interfaces let capital scale from FOAK to NOAK.
Offtake: explore capacity and submit an inquiry.
Clean firm power for AI/data-center load (100–500 MW) · Bridge-to-nuclear delivery path · Milestone-gated tranches · Hyperscaler anchor offtake

What’s the problem?
AI/data centers need reliable 24/7 power.
The grid constraints:
Interconnection, permitting, and build times can’t keep up with large-load growth.
Result: delays, higher costs, and more fossil peakers — clean-firm nuclear can solve this.
What we’re building
A programmatic fleet platform for repeatable nuclear power hubs.
The nuclear SMR fleet:
Clean firm power for AI/data centers & municipalities — delivered as a repeatable SMR fleet platform.
Bankable by design: standard contracts, risk allocation, and wrappers.
We underwrite hyperscaler single-tenant offtake per building; municipal PPAs and grid export are additive.
AI / data-center loads
Long-term revenue anchor
Municipal / community power
Export upside where available
Optional smaller-offtaker lane is ring-fenced, with credit support.
How it works?
We make FOAK financeable by design.
Instead of asking one investor to underwrite a ‘nuclear project,’ we break it into underwritable packets and bring capital in through a step-gated tranches.
The bankability engine:
Revenue floors designed for lender comfort (availability/tolling/CfD-like logic where appropriate).
Milestone gates that unlock capital only when objective underwriting conditions are met.
Risk transfer (construction / schedule / performance / tail risk) so WACC can compress as replication proves out.
Programmatic replication with standardized templates (diligence packs, covenants, reporting, and partner interfaces).
Capital ladder (simplified)

Why this is a platform
FOAK→NOAK is a finance problem as much as an engineering problem.
We focus on the repeatable pieces that reduce cost of capital and friction across a fleet.
The underwritable fleet:
The platform is the repeatable toolkit that turns FOAK into bankable nuclear power capacity and underwriting.
We standardize the parts lenders underwrite and auditors can verify:
Standard underwriting packets (tranches someone can actually price).
A replicable de-risking ladder (auditable gates; consistent reporting).
A capital path from catalytic → infra equity → senior programs → refinancing.
Contract + interface standards that survive IC and lender scrutiny.
Capital
We’re aligning three investable lanes to scale the fleet engine, and to deliver the first campus on a bankable posture.
Capital currently in focus: platform infra-equity, plus lead site bridge-power and DC facilities finance.
The capital pathways:
We’re structuring three investable lanes: programmatic platform equity, lead-site bridge-power capital, and phased DC facilities finance.
This is a 12-site program. Full fleet capex is on the order of ~$200–$300B, depending on delivery model and what sits on balance sheet.
Platform infra-equity: c.$500M (platform)
Program-level capitalization
Bridge-power capital: c.$350M (lead site)
Senior credit + minority equity
DC facilities: c.$2.4B for 2x100MW (lead site)
Shell and MEP c.$1.2B per 100MW IT
Smaller strategic checks considered case-by-case.
USE OF PLATFORM CAPITAL
The platform equity check underwrites a fleet development executed in a staggered lead + fast-follower cadence, with capital released by gates and reallocation rights across the portfolio.
Lead site #1 NTP-ready, lender-grade
Follower #2 gated, pipelined #3–#12
Platform + fleet origination engine
Status
Investor materials and counterparty names are shared under NDA.
What’s next
- Offtake term-sheet pack
- Lead site #1: site control
- FOAK delivery + underwriting pack
The platform preparations:
Three workstreams progressing in parallel.
We’re running three gating workstreams in parallel to lock offtake, sites, and the delivery stack.
Demand / offtake motion: active
Tier-1 hyperscaler diligence + Capacity Terminal live
Sites / siting: active
NY shortlist active + federal / state / utility lanes in motion
OEM stack + bridge power: defined
Tier-1 nuclear OEM basis in hand + bridge-power configuration defined
FAQ
Answers to common diligence question.
We make nuclear power bankable, profitable and delivered at scale.
The Frequently asked questions:
Core questions:
Do you have offtake commitments and capital in place — and what’s next?
Yes — we do, in stages. Offtakers progress from diligence to indicative terms, then to binding documents (capacity, ramp, pricing, etc.). In parallel, capital providers issue indicative terms earlier, conditioned on objective milestones and grounded in the contracting spine and delivery basis. These commitments mature in stages and differ across platform equity, bridge-power PF, real estate finance, and the nuclear step-up.
Our offtake security rests on two pillars. First, bridge power is the near-term contractable lane that matches 2–3 year procurement timelines and is underwritten by energy infrastructure investors with “classical” mandates and risk appetite. That anchors early contracted revenue and supports the underwriting case for the nuclear step-up.
Second, we run multiple single-tenant offtake lanes in parallel (per data-center building), so readiness doesn’t hinge on one early signature. Specific counterparties and structures are shared under NDA.
Are you relying on grid export or long interconnection queues?
No. The campus is designed to run islanded / behind-the-meter as the primary operating mode, across the phased build, with grid export treated as optional upside (e.g., municipal/community supply or additional revenue where available), not as the critical path. If/when we pursue interconnection, it’s a parallel, gated workstream with explicit queue/upgrade exposure—rather than an assumption baked into deliverability.
Is this a nuclear R&D technology bet?
No. We’re working only with proven, GW-scale commercial technologies. This platform is about delivery, contracting, and financeability—making nuclear energy bankable and repeatable. If any novel element exists, it is wrapped, bounded, and insured, with practical fallback options (alternative components/technologies) planned into the schedule and cost basis so delivery stays on track. We prioritize delivery posture, risk allocation, and bankable revenue floors over novelty narratives. OEM diligence is active under NDA.
What’s the bridge power — and what’s the commercial path while the nuclear lane progresses?
Bridge power is a contracted, financeable near-term delivery lane (2–3 years) that matches data-center procurement timelines—so hyperscalers can buy reliable capacity now while the nuclear lane progresses. It enables earlier COD and a clear commercial structure (capacity/tolling with pass-through where appropriate), generating predictable early revenue for the campus.
The nuclear lane is a separate underwriting packet that advances through gates, not a “wait 10 years” bet. The point is: commercial terms start now, and the nuclear upgrade executes once underwriting gates are met.
Why not a proven large reactor instead of SMR-class for AI/data-center campuses?
Large reactors make sense when there’s a pre-existing anchor (defense/industrial load or a utility context) to absorb the scale. For island-mode, greenfield data-center power, redundancy requires at least two independent nuclear units, and the combined scale pushes data-center and compute capex to a level where the financing package breaks apart.
Two SMR-class units match campus-scale and reliability needs, keeping the delivery and underwriting path financeable, phased, and repeatable—and preventing a mega-project outcome.
Will SMR nth-of-a-kind economics actually become attractive?
In our model, nth-of-a-kind (NOAK) replication improves economics, but it isn’t required for profitability. The commercial and financing logic is designed to work at each phase of the first campus (FOAK — first-of-a-kind) build-out.
The campus is designed to be profitable from FOAK #1 because the AI/data-center offtake supports contracted cashflows at each stage. Bridge power delivers first (Phase 1, then Phase 2), creating a financeable base with contracted cashflows. The nuclear lane then steps up to two SMR units for full clean-firm posture; if only one unit is delivered initially, the campus remains viable and reliability-compliant while the second follows.
Replication then improves financing terms, compresses WACC (weighted average cost of capital), and lowers delivered cost per unit of capacity ($/kW-month) across the platform.
How are you different from a typical power developer (and from large infra platforms)?
We’re building an integrated power + campus delivery product (commercial structure, contracting spine, and replication toolkit), not selling a single interconnection-led project.
We are a platform in the practical sense: we integrate multi-vendor power + data-center design, the siting/licensing workflow, a delivery coalition (site/OEM/operator), and a replicable financing + contracting architecture with bankable evidence gates—beyond typical power project development and not just a one-off project.
Large infrastructure platforms are optimized for grid-connected renewables and standard project-finance templates, which makes it harder to pivot into nuclear delivery. Nuclear requires specialized underwriting packets, risk compartmentalization, and milestone gating. We focus on islanded, large-load nuclear campuses—combining bridge power, nuclear generation, and data centers in a phased build-out—so the system is bankable and reliably deliverable. That lets hyperscalers procure capacity without becoming utilities, and lets capital underwrite clean, ring-fenced lanes that can be repeated at scale.
Does the team have execution credibility to match platform ambition?
Yes—because the platform combines capital-formation leadership with experienced technical development partners. Our team and partners cover nuclear project development (with delivery experience across Europe and globally), large-scale campus delivery architecture for high-reliability requirements, and institutional capital readiness.
Our organizational structure includes reliable governance and delivery control. We run workstreams with a lead + fast-follower cadence, release capital by objective gates, and build lender-readable packages (delivery basis, site posture, revenue basis, cost/schedule basis) with operating discipline and controls designed to scale.
Specific governance details, partner roles, and controlled diligence materials from the delivery and OEM workstreams are shared under NDA.
More questions:
Underwriting confidence
Is platform equity a binary nuclear bet? What do investors own if timelines slip?
No—platform equity is structured as a milestone-gated portfolio, not a single binary wager. Capital is deployed in staged releases against objective gates, with reallocation across the pipeline rather than “riding one site to zero.”
Investors own tangible, transferable assets: lead site #1 advanced to NTP-ready posture; fast-follower site #2 hard-gated; and a functioning fleet development organization designed to consistently produce bankable, profitable bridge-power and nuclear projects—comprised of governance and delivery controls, an active site pipeline, plus the commercial/offtake architecture, de-risked delivery basis, and lender-readiness workpacks that make the program repeatable.
Details of gates, governance, and packaging are shared under NDA.
How do you ring-fence risks and avoid a “half-built stranded asset” outcome?
We avoid “one big risk bundle” by using ring-fenced SPVs / lanes and milestone gating—so a late-stage risk does not contaminate earlier, financeable phases. The bridge-power and campus lanes are designed to be operable and contractable on their own, while the nuclear lane proceeds only when its gates are met. We also plan for step-in/termination mechanics and reallocation rights so the program can keep moving without being trapped in a single failure mode.
How do you de-risk nuclear power plant construction budget and schedule?
We treat budget as an underwriting artifact: obtain EPC-grade estimates and vendor quotations, map them into clear scopes/interfaces, and apply gated release milestones so capital is committed only when diligence conditions are met. We also structure risk transfer where feasible (tests, acceptance, LD posture, step-in rights) and align the delivery basis with lender expectations. Names, pricing, and workpacks are shared under NDA.
Bridge-power underwriting
Do you retire bridge power once nuclear comes online?
No—bridge power is not designed to be torn down. It is a long-life asset that continues operating through its useful life and changes role as the campus evolves.
As the nuclear step-up comes online, bridge power becomes part of the reliability stack—supporting redundancy, maintenance/outage coverage, black-start/backup capability, and peak/reserve needs. Where permitted, it can also contribute export upside, but it is not the primary dependency.
The nuclear step-up improves long-term cost and clean-firm posture; it does not invalidate the bridge-power investment.
Is bridge power a short-dated investment—or a standalone asset with durable returns?
It’s the latter. Bridge power is structured as a standalone, financeable asset with contracted cashflows and an operating life that supports repayment and returns. The campus is designed so bridge power remains useful after nuclear comes online (reliability, reserve/peaking, outage coverage, black-start/backup), rather than being stranded or dismantled.
Details of term structure, amortization profile, and contracted obligations are shared under NDA.
Capital and counterparties
What does “platform infra-equity” actually fund (and why is a ~$450–$500M raise credible)?
Platform infra-equity funds the fleet development engine, executed as lead + fast-followers (not parallel FOAK starts): site pipeline and control posture, contracting spine, delivery basis, commercial/offtake architecture, and lender-grade diligence packaging. It is credible because it underwrites a repeatable program (multi-site cadence) and unlocks project-level PF lanes that are separately capitalized. Detailed capitalization sequencing is shared under NDA.
Are you asking hyperscalers/offtakers to invest or take developer risk?
No. The preferred structure is payment against delivery via bankable commercial contracts, not milestone funding. We take developer workstream risk on our side and bring counterparties in through a standard procurement posture. Details and term shapes are shared under NDA.
Tier-1 offtakers already have nuclear partners — why would they need you?
An offtaker’s “nuclear partner” is often an OEM or strategic relationship—not an end-to-end delivery vehicle that packages site, contracting, financeability, and near-term power into a procurement-ready product. We focus on the interfaces that make the whole system executable: bridge-to-nuclear sequencing, contract architecture, and investable lanes that keep the offtaker out of utility ownership. In short: we make the capacity buyable and deliverable.
Execution risk
How do you manage nuclear technology selection risk (vendor concentration, breakthroughs, supplier failure)?
We manage this by designing vendor optionality where feasible, and avoiding single-vendor fragility, while keeping bankability through disciplined scopes/interfaces and gating. We do not rely on breakthroughs; we build a delivery posture that is robust under realistic vendor and market volatility. Specific vendor and licensing pathways are discussed under NDA.
How do you select sites and manage land/community constraints?
We start with practical overlays (fuel, transmission posture, roads/rail, industrial zoning, water/cooling posture, security perimeter potential) and move from “interesting” to “bankable” via gating. Land control, logistics, permitting pathway, and community fit are treated as first-order execution gates. Specific locations and counterparties are shared under NDA.
Downloads
Forwardable overview
Banker’s Note
Raise Addendum
Forwardable summary of the capital ladder, risk packets, and replication logic.
Deeper view of the underwriting packets, capital routing, and KPI gates.
Indicative structures, gating milestones, and raise details — on request.
Technology and program briefs with nuclear, bridge power and AI/data centers set-up and sequencing summary are available on request.
Who we are
TK Dilus Platform is led by Tymur Khusainov and works with specialist partners across siting/licensing, project development, and finance structuring.

Tymur Khusainov
Managing Director
Platform · Capital Stack · OEM Partnerships
Professional site: tymurkhusainov.com

Vighnesh Candassamy
Nuclear Project Developer
Design · Siting · Licensing · Offtake
Professional site: ti-byte.com
Contact
Capital and strategic partner inquiries.
Email: capital@tkdilus.com
Some details available under NDA. Typical reply within 1–2 business days.
