Signed contracts don't deliver electrons — physics and interconnection queues do.
Between a signed deal and first power sit fuel-handling mishaps and interconnection study cycles — a single tilted assembly forced an emergency license amendment at America's flagship restart, while PJM's procedural withdrawal of Oklo's 750 MW campus adds at least 18 months — making execution milestones, not announcements, the true timeline-setters for the AI-nuclear buildout.
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A single mishandled assembly froze the nation's flagship restart, forced emergency NRC processing, and left no republished restart timeline — physical execution risk now sets the sector's schedule.
FERC's rejection of Oklo's emergency complaint leaves a 750 MW advanced-nuclear campus gated by PJM study-cycle procedure rather than demand, capital, or technology.