Engineering
This platform is where all Oklo code is created, branched, and merged before it ever hits the vault.
What is GitHub?
This 4-letter acronym represents the high standard of Nuclear Quality Assurance that Oklo must follow for its license.
What is NQA-1?
Unlike code, these physical items require a "Chain of Custody" from the factory to the reactor site
What are Nuclear-Grade Parts?
This is the primary mission of Oklo—to provide clean, reliable energy using this type of advanced technology
What is Fission?)
To ensure "Secure Coding" standards, every piece of code must undergo this peer-review process before a merge
What is a Pull Request or PR?)
To protect Oklo’s mission, this must be "locked" and metadata-tagged in M-Files before a vendor can begin work.
What is a signed Contract or Execution Version?
This is the primary tool the Supply Chain team uses to manage vendor audits and purchase orders.
What is Oracle/ERP?
Where Co-Founder Caroline Cohran received a bachelor of arts in Economics, and a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering
What is The University of Oklahoma. ?
This is the automated "Bridge" that ensures the latest version in GitHub matches the "Released" version in M-Files.
What is the Sync/API bridge?)
This legal concept ensures that as we collaborate, our "Secret Sauce" and reactor designs stay inside the company.
What is Intellectual Property or IP Protection?)
This specific document must stay attached to a part at all times to prove its "Nuclear Pedigree.
What is a Material Test Report or MTR?
This is the city or specific neighborhood where Oklo’s headquarters or main testing facility is located
Where is Santa Clara/California?
This is the specific practice of managing infrastructure and system configurations using the same version control as our application code
What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
This "Time-Machine" feature in M-Files allows Legal and Regulatory to see every previous iteration of a document, including who changed what and when
What is Version History (or the Audit Trail)?
This critical procurement process involves evaluating a vendor's quality management system to ensure they can meet the rigorous "Nuclear Grade" requirements of NQA-1.
What is a Vendor Audit (or Supplier Qualification)?
Before the name "Oklo" was chosen, the company was originally founded in 2013 under this "Upbeat" name
What is UPower?