Amazon has unveiled updated plans for a small modular reactor (SMR) facility in the US state of Washington that will now be triple the original proposed size with 12 reactors producing a maximum of 960 MW of electricity.
The online retail and web services giant said the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility will be constructed in three phases, each with four of X-energy’s 80-MW, high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs).
Amazon said it expects construction to start “by the end of this decade,” with hopes of generating electricity sometime “in the 2030s”.
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