The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its safety review for the initial deployment In Texas of X-energy’s Xe-100 high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR).

X-energy, which is backed by retail and tech giant Amazon, said the proposed Long Mott station in Texas would be the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor at an industrial facility in US history.

The NRC’s final safety evaluation report follows a comprehensive review of the Xe-100 plant’s principal design criteria, preliminary design, safety analyses, probabilistic risk assessment and research and development programmes.