X-Energy nuclear company added $ 200 million to a current round of the series C at a value of $ 500 million.
The Small Unity A reactor has previously announced a deal with Amazon in October, which included investment and development agreements to build 300 megawatts of nuclear power plants in the northwest of the Pacific.
Among the new investors in the tour are Ares Management, Laurene Powell-Jobs of Emerson Collective, Jane Street and Segra Capital Management.
X-Energy is one of many nuclear startups that have benefited from the AI’s data center mutation as well as the Trump nuclear power administration’s support.
The XE-100 reactors of the company are expected to generate 80 megawatts of electricity each, or enough to operate about 50,000 homes.
The reactors of the so -called Treso fuel, which are designed to be safer than the most common fuel bars. Each “pebble” of fuel contains about 18,000 carbon -coated uranium molecules, and one reactor will be loaded with 200,000 hp.
X-Energy expects its first Amazon reactor to access the Internet in the early thirties of the twentieth century.
The company said that the new financing will help complete the design of its reactor and license, as well as building the first phase of the fuel manufacturing factory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
