Fluor has been selected by X-energy to provide engineering, design and project management services for the proposed Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, an advanced small modular reactor (SMR) project near Richland, Washington.
The contract covers engineering and design development, supply chain activities, estimating and project controls for the facility’s nuclear island.
The proposed facility will comprise four of X-energy’s Xe-100 high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, with a combined generating capacity of approximately 320 MW. The site has the potential to accommodate up to 12 reactors, increasing total capacity to 960 MW.
Fluor said it will draw on experience from its ongoing work with X-energy on the company’s first Xe-100 project to support development of the Cascade facility, refine execution planning and inform investment decisions.
The project forms part of X-energy’s wider ambition to deploy 5 GW of new nuclear generating capacity by 2039. It follows an earlier Fluor contract to provide similar services for X-energy’s proposed advanced nuclear project at Dow’s UCC Seadrift Operations in Texas.
The latest award strengthens the relationship between the two companies as X-energy advances plans for the commercial deployment of its Xe-100 reactor technology.
“Advanced nuclear technologies are poised to play a critical role in meeting growing energy demand while supporting decarbonisation goals,” said Pierre Bechelany, Fluor’s business group president of Energy Solutions.
