X-energy, Fluor Corporation Advance Nuclear Engineering and Design for Second Xe-100 Project
Key Highlights
- ➤Fluor selected for Energy Northwest’s Cascade Xe-100 nuclear island engineering and design
- ➤Second commercial X-energy-Fluor contract builds on first Texas project’s learnings
- ➤X-energy advancing an 11.5 GW commercial pipeline, equivalent to 144 Xe-100s
- ➤Cascade is first X-energy-Amazon project targeting 5 GW of new nuclear by 2039
- ➤American Electric Power Indiana project recently announced as second collaboration project
Expert Statements
Dragan Popovic, Global Chief Operating Officer at X-energy
“The success of our projects begins with working as one team, building on each other’s expertise to drive toward scale”
Dragan Popovic, Global Chief Operating Officer at X-energy
“Repeated execution with partners of Fluor’s quality helps us build that expertise in real time, so that every lesson we carry forward supports greater efficiency in design, licensing, and construction.”
* Fluor to provide services for Energy Northwest's Cascade Advanced Energy Facility * Partnership on second-of-a-kind project aims to incorporate first project learnings * Supports first project in X-energy and Amazon effort to deploy 5 GW by 2039 ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- X-Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: XE) (“X-energy” or “the Company”), a leading developer of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel technology today announced the selection of Fluor Corporation (“Fluor”) for design and engineering services to support Energy Northwest’s Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, a proposed Xe-100 advanced small modular reactor (“SMR”) facility near Richland, Washington. The selection builds on Fluor's work on X-energy's first proposed Xe-100 project in Texas, enabling best practices and learnings to carry into a second-of-a-kind project, supporting accelerated long-term standardized project execution.
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