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Prometheus Tracker

X-energy

Tier 1 industry partner · Reactor developer · $10M committed

Role in Prometheus

Founding Tier 1 partner: Xe-100 HTGR and TRISO-X fuel designs serve as the program's primary technical platform for integrating frontier AI into design, licensing, manufacturing, construction, semi-autonomous operation and fuel fabrication workflows.

Commitments

TierTier 1 industry partner
CategoryReactor developer
Board seatYes
Capital committed$10M
In-kindProprietary Xe-100 HTGR design and TRISO-X fuel fabrication data
TickerXE

Assets brought to the program

  • Xe-100 SMR
  • TRISO-X fuel
  • APEX multi-agent platform (internal)

Workstreams

Notes

Holds seats on the consortium's Governance and Science Boards; expects to leverage Prometheus results across its 11 GW commercial pipeline (Dow, Amazon, Centrica).

Milestone log

  • 2026-07-22Announced as founding Tier 1 partner: $10M private capital, board of directors representation, Xe-100/TRISO-X as technical platform (source)

Sources

  1. https://x-energy.com/news/x-energy-joins-project-prometheus-for-ai-accelerated-advanced-nuclear-deployment/
  2. https://inl.gov/artificial-intelligence/prometheus/
  3. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/prometheus-project-selected-for-federal-support