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Amazon plans to develop 12 small modular nuclear reactors with a near 1GW total power output, with plans to more than quintuple that number by 2039 - AI and Cloud services are first in line to benefit

Amazon Nuclear Reactors.
  • Amazon partners with X-energy and Energy Northwest to deploy twelve modular reactors
  • The Cascade Advanced Energy Facility will anchor a one-gigawatt nuclear project
  • Each Xe-100 reactor will generate 80 megawatts of scalable clean power

Amazon has revealed plans for the construction of 12 small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) through a partnership with X-energy and Energy Northwest as it aims for a combined output of about 1GW by the next decade.

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