97% of the potential energy in nuclear fuel goes unused. Alpha Nur is modernizing nuclear energy — safely powering tomorrow's carbon-free future with American energy reserves.
0%less high-level waste through Full-Circle recycling
0 GWU.S. nuclear deployment target by 2050 — fueled by HALEU
0nationally competitive U.S. Department of Energy programs secured
Who We Are
First light on a new nuclear era.
Alpha Nur — "First Light" in Greek and Arabic — stands at the intersection of sustainability and national security, recycling America's legacy nuclear material into next-generation fuel.
America is racing to deploy a new generation of reactors — targeting hundreds of gigawatts of new nuclear by 2050. Nearly all of those designs run on High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU), and supply is the single biggest choke point: commercial HALEU has historically come almost entirely from Russia.
Meanwhile, the U.S. government stores hundreds of tonnes of highly enriched legacy fuels — material holding enormous untapped energy, costing taxpayers on the order of $100M every year to manage as waste.
Alpha Nur closes that loop. Our decladding and electrorefining processes recover legacy highly enriched material and transform it into HALEU feedstock for tomorrow's reactors — Full-Circle Fission™. Anchored by an active CRADA with Idaho National Laboratory and accelerated by Executive Orders 14301 & 14302 directing the recycling of spent HEU for HALEU production, we're powering a carbon-free future with American energy reserves.
Safety
Safety is our first principle. A safe, weapons-resistant recycling process — engineered to protect people, communities, and the environment at every step.
Waste Reduction
Over 95% of targeted used-fuel waste is just cladding. Low-temperature chlorination strips 99%+ of it and electrorefining recovers the fuel — up to 95% less high-level waste.
National Security
Breaking dependence on foreign enrichment — rebuilding a sovereign U.S. fuel supply from American energy reserves.
Progress to Date
Backed, recognized, and accelerating.
Alpha Nur has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Chicago, and has participated in nationally ranked accelerators.
Technical Representative on two of Alpha Nur's active CRADAs with Idaho National Laboratory. 776 Foundation Climate Fellow. S.B., The University of Chicago '22.
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Kathryn Sutton
Director of Regulatory Affairs · Board of Directors
30+ years in commercial nuclear law. Former head of Morgan Lewis's Energy Practice; Chambers "Eminent Practitioner"; past Chair, NEI Legal Advisory Committee.
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Work on the Frontier of Fission
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The University of Chicago — S.B., 2022 (full-ride scholarship).
Experience
Kevin founded Alpha Nur in 2021 and leads the company's work developing pathways to recycle U.S. government legacy nuclear material inventories into uranium feedstock, through structured collaboration with national laboratories and government partners.
He serves as Technical Representative on two of Alpha Nur's active Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with Idaho National Laboratory — covering controlled technical data exchange, economic analysis, and R&D roadmapping for nuclear fuel cycle infrastructure — and has coordinated with national laboratory facility engineers and government program planning teams on scalable deployment concepts incorporating regulatory, siting, and lifecycle considerations.
He has executed government contracts exceeding $1,000,000 in total value under FAR-aligned project management, NIST SP 800-171 controls for CUI, and Atomic Energy Act / 10 CFR Part 810 export-control provisions.
Kevin is a member of the Nuclear Fuel Recycling and Fuel Fabrication Subcommittees of the DOE Defense Production Act Nuclear Fuel Cycle Consortium, and has led equity financing with a U.S.-citizen investor base structured around national security considerations, including CFIUS/FOCI implications.
Honors & Recognition
776 Foundation Climate Fellow (2023–2025) · DOE Office of Nuclear Energy Technology Bonus Prize Winner (2022) · Chain Reaction Innovations Finalist (2023) · Chicago Inno 25 Under 25 (2022) · DOE Cradle to Commerce, Cohort 1 (2023–2025) · Jeff Metcalf Fellowship Grant (2020, 2022) · Eagle Scout (2017)
Kathryn M. Sutton
Director of Regulatory Affairs · Board of Directors
Education
The Pennsylvania State University — Honors Degree, Political Science, summa cum laude (1985). Georgetown University Law Center — J.D., cum laude (1988).
Experience
Kathryn spent over three decades representing commercial nuclear utilities before the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Atomic Safety & Licensing Board, other federal agencies, and the federal courts — with deep expertise in new plant licensing, original and subsequent license renewal, plant operations and restarts, and high-level waste disposal.
She joined Winston & Strawn's energy practice in 1991, becoming a junior partner in 1996 and later senior partner, and moved her practice to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in 2005. In 2010 she became head of the Morgan Lewis Energy Practice Group — leading attorneys across oil, gas, electric, state regulatory, renewable, and nuclear matters — and ultimately guided the strategies of the firm's thirteen industry teams spanning sectors from energy and health care to technology and financial services. She retired from Morgan Lewis in October 2021.
Today, Kathryn resides in Winter Park, Florida, where she chairs the City's Utilities Advisory Board — appointed by the Mayor in 2024 and unanimously elected Chair in 2025 — and serves on the External Advisory Board to the Dean of the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State.
Honors & Recognition
"Eminent Practitioner," Chambers · Chair, Nuclear Energy Institute Legal Advisory Committee · U.S. Commercial Delegation to the IAEA · Three Terms, Morgan Lewis Advisory Board · Chair, City of Winter Park Utilities Advisory Board · Phi Beta Kappa
