en.Wedoany.com Reported - Fluor Corporation, headquartered in Irving, Texas, recently signed a contract with X-Energy Reactor Com., LLC to provide Front-End Loading Phase 2 (FEL-2) services for an advanced nuclear power project at Dow Chemical's UCC Seadrift Operations site in South Texas. The project plans to develop four 80-megawatt small modular reactor (SMR) units, aiming to provide the plant with safe, reliable, carbon-free electricity and industrial steam to replace aging energy infrastructure. Fluor will finalize the specific contract value for this initial phase in the first quarter of 2026.
Under the agreement, Fluor is responsible for project definition, strategic planning, feasibility assessment, cost control, and risk mitigation. The X-Energy project submitted a construction permit application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in March 2025, which is currently under review. The project is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP), aiming to accelerate the commercialization of advanced nuclear technology through cost-shared partnerships.
Pierre Bechara, President of Fluor's Energy Solutions business group, stated that X-Energy's technology provides a strong pathway for small modular reactors to deliver baseload power in industrial settings, and Fluor, with eight decades of nuclear experience, is helping to advance this milestone project. X-Energy was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2020 to develop the XE-100 advanced small modular reactor and the first TRISO-X fuel fabrication facility, having now completed engineering and preliminary reactor design.
Dow Chemical's UCC Seadrift Operations site spans 4,700 acres and produces over 4 billion pounds of materials annually for applications such as food packaging, footwear, and wire and cable insulation. The Seadrift project is poised to become North America's first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor deployed for an industrial facility.
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