The US Department of Defense has awarded a contract option to X-energy, LLC to develop an enhanced engineering design for a transportable microreactor suitable for both commercial and defence use under the Project Pele initiative. This second design would be complementary to the prototype microreactor which is being built by BWX Technologies.
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The contract went to Oklo Inc., of Santa Clara, Calif., for a 20-MW reactor at Eielson Air Force Base, a fighter base 110 miles from the Arctic Circle, according to the company and an Air Force news release Aug. 31.