Fluor Corporation has signed a contract to support X-energy's planned small modular reactor project at Dow's UCC Seadrift Operations facility in southern Texas, according to the American Nuclear Society's June industry update published June 4.
Fluor's role will initially involve delivery of front-end loading stage 2 services, including project definition, strategic planning, feasibility assessment, cost control, and risk mitigation. X-energy plans to deploy four 80-megawatt Xe-100 small modular reactors at the site to replace aging infrastructure and supply both electricity and industrial steam.
The Seadrift complex manufactures materials used in food packaging, footwear, wire and cable insulation, solar cell components, and medical and pharmaceutical packaging, making it one of the first US industrial facilities slated to draw process heat and power from advanced nuclear units. X-energy submitted its construction permit application for the project to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in March 2025, and the effort is supported by the Department of Energy's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.
The contract lands amid a broader wave of SMR activity. In the same update, ANS reported that Oklo expanded a transatlantic partnership with Sweden's Blykalla on fast reactor commercialization, with planned investments of 100 million to 200 million dollars, and that TerraPower previewed an AI-powered engineering platform it says could compress site-specific design work from 18 months to as little as eight weeks for its Natrium reactor. Blue Energy also announced 380 million dollars in new financing, with early site work planned in Texas later this year.
Source: ANS Nuclear Newswire -- https://www.ans.org/news/2026-06-04/article-8045/industry-updatejune-2026/