Shovels are officially in the ground at a $300 million nuclear fuel fabrication plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
X-energy’s TRISO-X facility is being funded initially as part of a $3.2 billion federal program to develop, build and demonstrate advanced nuclear reactors. The goal is for the plant to be commissioned and operational by 2025.
The fuel produced at the facility will be used in X-energy’s Xe-100 high-temperature gas reactors, expected to be operational by 2028. The first project would be a 320 MW four-unit Xe-100 power plant in Washington state.
