Fermi America, a specialist in hyperscale AI, and Westinghouse Electric Company are collaborating to finalise the combined operating licence application (COLA) to deploy four advanced modular AP1000 reactors at Fermi America’s Amarillo campus.
Under the agreement, the companies will together complete the COLA documentation that was submitted by Fermi America to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in June this year, and support the review process for approval. Longer term, the two companies are to work together to develop a long-term deployment strategy for the site.
“As the only fully licensed, construction-ready advanced modular reactor available today, the AP1000 technology is ready to deliver the power needed to unlock the full potential of next-generation artificial intelligence,” commented Dan Lipman, president, Energy Systems, Westinghouse.
The advanced AP1000 reactor is believed to be the only operating Generation III+ reactor with fully passive safety systems, modular construction design and the smallest footprint per MWe on the market. There are six AP1000 reactors currently setting operational performance and availability records worldwide with 14 additional reactors under construction and five more under contract. The technology has been selected for nuclear energy programmes in Poland, Ukraine and Bulgaria, and is also under consideration at multiple other sites in Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America.
