Overview
- A joint development agreement announced Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, between Amazon, X‑energy and American Electric Power commits the parties to evaluate a 12‑unit Xe‑100 small modular reactor project targeting 960 megawatts on or near the retired Breed Generating Station in Sullivan County, Indiana.
- Amazon will provide milestone‑based development funding and says it intends to be the first long‑term buyer of the plant’s electricity in a structure the companies say is designed to protect local ratepayers from project costs.
- The proposal calls for 12 Xe‑100 units, each an 80 MW high‑temperature gas‑cooled reactor that uses helium coolant and TRISO particle fuel and that X‑energy promotes for passive safety, compact footprint and flexible cooling options.
- The plan is explicitly at a feasibility stage with no disclosed capital cost, Amazon funding amount, contract price or term, ownership split, final investment decision date, construction schedule or NRC licensing pathway, and progression depends on X‑energy delivering earlier projects such as Seadrift and securing NRC approvals.
- Companies say the project would reuse a brownfield coal site, could create about 1,000 construction jobs and more than 100 permanent roles, and forms part of Amazon and X‑energy’s broader aim to deploy over 5 GW of U.S. advanced nuclear capacity by 2039.