Kairos Power

Does the core business genuinely avoid or reduce emissions, or build climate resilience? Share of revenue that is actually 'green'. Fossil-dependent models score low.

The KP-FHR is a near-zero lifecycle-emissions electricity source designed explicitly to provide 24/7 carbon-free baseload power and replace fossil fuel plants; the Google 500 MW agreement and TVA PPA are binding and real, but no commercial MWh have been generated yet, so impact remains prospective.

Credible, science-based targets (SBTi), a real net-zero plan with progress to date, and CDP disclosure — not just a dated press release.

No SBTi commitment or validated targets, no CDP disclosure, no published GHG inventory, and no independently verified net-zero plan were found; the company's climate commitments are expressed only as a product mission statement ('enable the world's transition to clean energy'), not as quantified operational targets.

Operational footprint, labour and social practices, and governance quality across the company's own operations and supply chain.

No public sustainability report, ESG disclosure, diversity data, or labor practice documentation was found; the Flibe coolant contains beryllium (a known occupational carcinogen requiring strict controls), HALEU supply chain introduces handling and nonproliferation risks, and as a private pre-commercial firm Kairos has minimal governance disclosure obligations.

Quality of disclosure, independent third-party verification, and how much hard data backs the company's claims.

Kairos discloses NRC licensing documents publicly and participates in DOE's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program with milestone-based reporting, but publishes no sustainability report, no Scope 1/2/3 GHG data, no CDP response, and no third-party-verified environmental data; regulatory filings are the primary source of verifiable technical information.

Controversies, litigation, pollution, fossil-fuel lobbying, conflict-zone involvement and governance scandals. Higher means cleaner.

No material financial scandals, pollution incidents, fossil lobbying, or governance controversies were identified; the main integrity-adjacent concerns are structural — HALEU proliferation risk flagged by the National Academy of Sciences, beryllium occupational hazard in Flibe coolant, nuclear waste management obligations, and the inherent construction/schedule risk of a first-of-a-kind reactor — none of which constitute current harms but all of which require monitoring.