The US Department of Defence (DOD) has awarded a contract to Maryland-based X-energy for work on a design for a transportable nuclear microreactor as a part of Project Pele.
It is the second such contract in the project to build a plant that could be deployed by the military. Virginia-based BWX Technologies (BWXT) has already begun work on its plant with the fabrication of long-lead hardware, under a contract awarded in 2022.
The X-energy contract means the two companies are working in parallel on two seperate demonstration plants.
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