Marchitto Inc. · Project Thoron · 2026

The Last
Fuel Problem

Every military vehicle on earth is defined by one critical vulnerability: the fuel supply chain. Marchitto Inc. is building the miniaturized Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor platform that eliminates it — entirely.

50+ Years — No Refueling
800kW Continuous Output
Zero Meltdown Risk
1965 Physics Proven

End the Energy Vulnerability

Soldiers die protecting fuel convoys. Missions fail when supply lines are cut. Entire campaigns are constrained by logistics, not by will. Project THORON eliminates that vulnerability — not incrementally, not partially — entirely.

"The LFTR was proven at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1965. It ran for four years without incident. It was shut down for political reasons — not scientific ones. The technology has been sitting on a shelf for sixty years waiting for someone obsessed enough to pick it up."

The Problem
Fuel Is the Target
Every military platform — ground vehicles, aircraft, tanks, naval vessels — requires continuous petroleum resupply. Those convoys are the highest-value targets on any battlefield. The logistics tail defines and constrains everything.
The Solution
No Convoy. No Fuel.
A THORON reactor installed at the factory provides 50 to 100 years of operational energy from 8 kilograms of thorium. The vehicle carries its entire operational lifetime of fuel from day one. There is no supply chain to attack.
The Technology
LFTR — Proven Since 1965
The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor operates at atmospheric pressure, cannot melt down by physics, and breeds its own fuel continuously. The MSRE at Oak Ridge proved it. Marchitto Inc. is building the vehicle-scale version.
The Defense Path
DOD Pathway First
The US Navy has operated nuclear reactors for 70+ years under its own authorization framework — entirely separate from civilian NRC licensing. That regulatory pathway already exists. It is the fastest route from technology to deployment.

One Reactor

The LFTR capsule is the product. The vehicles prove the technology. Each platform shares the same reactor core, the same passive safety architecture, and the same fuel cycle.

Platform 1
T1-M
Tactical nuclear ground vehicle.
800kW · Unlimited range
Platform 2
NF-1
Nuclear strike aircraft.
Indefinite loiter · No tanker
Platform 3
NT-1
Nuclear main battle tank.
1,200kW · No fuel convoy
Platform 4
NS-1
Nuclear surface vessel.
5MW · 25-year endurance

Joey Marchitto

No nuclear background. No capital. No team. Starting from zero.

Palmer Luckey had no VR background. Elon Musk had no aerospace background. The credential that matters is the obsession and the team. The physics was proven 60 years ago. The gap is will — not credentials.

PHASE 0
Foundation · Days 1–45
Company formed · Patent filed · First contacts
PHASE 1
Team & Funding · Year 1
Chief scientist · SBIR · ARPA-E · Seed round
PHASE 2
Research & Proof · Years 2–5
CRADA · Prototype · First criticality Month 56
PHASES 3–5
Platform · Certification · Scale
First drive · First delivery · Global LFTR licensing

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