The UK government has announced during the 2021 Nuclear Industry Association annual conference that it has chosen high-temperature gas reactors (HTGRs) as its preferred advanced nuclear reactor technology.

The U.S. Congress and the Administration continue to demonstrate their leadership in recognizing that advanced nuclear energy is an important carbon-free base-load power source that will allow the US and the world to achieve global carbon reductions by 2050.

X-energy and Centrus Energy Corp. announced that preliminary design of X-energy’s TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility has been completed and that the companies have signed a contract for Centrus to continue its work as the project enters its next phase.

X-energy Provides Fuel Fabrication Services as part of DARPA’s DRACO Program. X-energy will develop key fuel fabrication processes in support of a first-of-a-kind rocket powered by nuclear thermal propulsion.

X-energy expands TRISO-X as a subsidiary to commercialize its Advanced Nuclear Fuel. TRISO-X will commercially develop its proprietary tristructural isotropic (TRISO) fuel for the burgeoning advanced nuclear energy sector.

As CNO of X-energy, Mr. Vanderheyden is responsible for leading X-energy’s efforts to safely deploy X-energy’s generation 4+ High Temperature Gas Reactor plants in North America and Internationally.

Energy Northwest, Grant County Public Utility District and X-energy, LLC signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a mutual partnership to support the development and commercial demonstration of the country’s first advanced nuclear reactor.

Department of Defense selects X-energy’s Mobile Microreactor Concept to proceed with development of a final design for a transportable advanced nuclear microreactor prototype.

X-energy signs Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) Cooperative Agreement, marking the beginning of the ~$2.5 billion project to build the world’s first commercial scale advanced reactor.