Company: GIGGU
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-277896
Chunk: 229

Company: GigCapital7 Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-11-12
Form: S-4
Chunk 229
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 activities, collaborations with third parties may increase the cost and effectiveness of our intellectual property protections and create risk of intellectual property infringement. Although we take steps to protect our intellectual property through agreements covering non-disclosure, confidentially and related agreements, such mitigating steps may not be**

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**adequate to fully protect our intellectual property portfolio, which could have a negative result on our financial condition and results of operations.

The Hadron Halo design has not yet been approved or licensed for use at any site by the NRC, and approval or licensing of our design is not guaranteed.

Hadron Energy submitted its letter of intent to the NRC in April 2025 and its regulatory engagement plan to the NRC in May 2025. Notwithstanding these actions, the Hadron Halo design has yet been licensed, certified or approved by the NRC, and there are currently no MMRs that have been fully licensed by the NRC. If the NRC disagrees with our, or our customers’, licensing approach or the technical bases supporting the nuclear safety and environmental impact evaluations, the construction and operating license application processes could take longer than currently expected, or a license may not be granted at all, which could materially and adversely affect our business. Further, the NRC could impose conditions in a license that are not acceptable to us or our customers, which could materially and adversely affect our business. Any delays, conditions or unexpected requirements may increase costs for us or our customers and may result in uncertainty regarding the ability to deploy our technology in a predictable way, which may adversely impact our competitiveness.

The public has the ability to intervene in licensing proceedings before the NRC for a reactor.

Under the Atomic Energy Act and the implementing NRC regulations, members of the public, state, or tribal governments may request a public hearing opposing the issuance of any NRC permit or license, or challenging portions of the license or permit application or of the NRC’s review. Certain NRC actions also include provision for a mandatory administrative hearing regardless of whether any contentions are submitted in conjunction with the action. These hearing processes may delay or prevent the issuance of required regulatory approvals (e.g., permits or licenses) for a customer’s MMR.

Even if the Hadron Halo is licensed in the U.S., we must still obtain approvals on a country-by-countrybasis to deploy our technology, which approvals may be delayed or denied or which may require modification to our design.

Even if the Hadron Halo is licensed, certified and/or approved in the