{"id":752628,"date":"2026-11-10T23:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/x-energy-gets-green-light-to-build-its-first-small-modular-nuclear-reactors\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T23:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:45:30","slug":"x-energy-gets-green-light-to-build-its-first-small-modular-nuclear-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/x-energy-gets-green-light-to-build-its-first-small-modular-nuclear-reactors\/","title":{"rendered":"X-energy gets green light to build its first small modular nuclear reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nuclear startup X-energy<\/a> announced Monday that it had been given the go-ahead from federal officials to build its first four commercial reactors.<\/p>\n

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) app<\/a>roved the construction permit application for four of X-energy\u2019s Xe-100 reactors at a Dow chemical plant in Texas. Each reactor will be capable of generating 80 megawatts of electricity and 200 megawatts of heat. X-energy says the approval is the first for an advanced nuclear reactor at an industrial site in the United States.<\/p>\n

The U.S. nuclear industry has pinned its hopes on small modular reactors \u2014 or SMRs \u2014 like those being developed by X-energy. By shrinking the reactor, proponents say it will speed construction and reduce costs, though those advantages have yet to be proven. No SMR is currently in operation in the U.S., and X-energy says Dow\u2019s reactors won\u2019t be operational until the early 2030s.<\/p>\n

X-energy claims that its reactor design, which flows helium gas over uranium-containing fuel pellets, is safer than many existing reactors, but the Union of Concerned Scientists questioned the claim and the speed with which X-energy received the permit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NRC only accomplished this feat by pushing consideration of critical safety questions to a later date\u2014issues the NRC should\u2019ve fully resolved before green lighting construction,\u201d Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety for the organization, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The nuclear industry has benefitted from strong interest from hyperscalers and data center developers, who are desperate for any and all sources of electricity. Amazon\u2019s Climate Pledge Fund led X-energy\u2019s $500 million Series<\/a> C-1, and the big tech company has also committed to buying 5 gigawatts of capacity from the nuclear startup.<\/p>\n

X-energy rode that wave of excitement earlier this year when its April initial public offering raised $1 billion. But since then, investors\u2019 optimism has tempered.<\/p>\n

The hesitancy isn\u2019t surprising: Nuclear power plants are expensive to build and can take years to complete. Eventually, X-energy hopes to rein in both time and cost, but its first reactors are likely to be pricey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new permit approval gave X-energy a small jolt yesterday, though it was only enough to recover last week\u2019s losses. The company\u2019s shares are trading at less than half their initial offering price.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nuclear startup X-energy announced Monday that it had been given the go-ahead from federal officials to build its first four commercial reactors. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved the construction permit application for four of X-energy\u2019s Xe-100 reactors at a Dow chemical plant in Texas. Each reactor will be capable of generating 80 megawatts of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-129268875.jpg?resize=1200,900","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77143,76151,156643],"class_list":["post-752628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-climate","tag-nuclear-power","tag-x-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}