{"id":20600,"date":"2026-07-06T04:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/?page_id=20600"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:27:30","slug":"x-energy-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/en\/s-1-journal\/x-energy-2026","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Reserved a Nuclear Plant. None of Them Are Running Yet."},"content":{"rendered":"<style>@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Newsreader:ital,opsz,wght@0,6..72,400;0,6..72,500;0,6..72,600;1,6..72,400&display=swap');html,body {max-width: 100vw !important;overflow-x: hidden !important;}main,main > .entry-content,main > .wp-block-post-content,main > .wp-block-post-content.is-layout-constrained,main > .wp-block-post-content.is-layout-constrained > *,main .wp-block-group,main .wp-block-post-content {max-width: 100% !important;padding-left: 0 !important;padding-right: 0 !important;margin-left: 0 !important;margin-right: 0 !important;}main#wp--skip-link--target {padding: 0 !important;margin-top: 0 !important;max-width: 100% !important;}.s1-figure-inline {display: block;width: 100%;max-width: 100%;margin: 60px 0;padding: 0;box-sizing: border-box;}.s1-figure-inline picture {display: block;width: 100%;}.s1-figure-inline img {display: block;width: 100%;max-width: 100%;height: auto;margin: 0;}@media (max-width: 720px) {.s1-hero-grid {grid-template-columns: 1fr !important;}.s1-hero-grid > div {border-right: none !important;border-bottom: 1px solid #e6e6e6 !important;padding: 24px 12px !important;}.s1-hero-grid > div:last-child {border-bottom: none !important;}.s1-hero-grid > div > div:first-child {font-size: 32px !important;white-space: normal !important;}.s1-body-table,.s1-body-table tbody,.s1-body-table tr,.s1-body-table td,.s1-body-table th {display: block !important;width: 100% !important;max-width: 100% !important;box-sizing: border-box !important;}.s1-body-table thead {display: none !important;}.s1-body-table tr {margin-bottom: 16px !important;padding: 8px 0 !important;border-top: 1px solid #1a1a1a !important;}.s1-body-table tr:last-child {border-bottom: 1px solid #1a1a1a !important;}.s1-body-table td {text-align: left !important;padding: 6px 8px !important;}.s1-body-table td::before {content: attr(data-label) \": \";font-weight: 700 !important;color: #000 !important;}.s1-body-table td:first-child::before,.s1-body-table td[data-label=\"\"]::before {display: none !important;}.s1-light-shadow {flex-direction: column !important;}.s1-light-shadow > div {border-left: 1px solid #1a1a1a !important;border-top: 0 !important;}.s1-light-shadow > div:first-child {border-top: 1px solid #1a1a1a !important;}h1 {font-size: clamp(26px, 7vw, 34px) !important;}h2 {font-size: clamp(22px, 5.5vw, 28px) !important;}.s1-article-cta-headline {font-size: 24px !important; 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font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 600; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 14px;\">S-1 <span style=\"color: #daa241;\">Journal<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; align-items: center; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 14px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 26px;\">\n        <span style=\"font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.18em; color: #1a1a1a; font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;\">The 10 Questions<\/span><br \/>\n        <span style=\"font-size: 11px; color: #ccc;\">|<\/span><br \/>\n        <span style=\"font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.02em; color: #666; font-weight: 400;\">Every S-1, decoded through the same 10 questions.<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 1px; background: #daa241;\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"max-width: 720px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 20px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: pretty;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0 0 32px 0;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0; color: #daa241; margin: 0; line-height: 1.2;\">X-Energy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: clamp(32px, 6vw, 46px); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.2; letter-spacing: -0.01em; color: #000; margin: 0 0 40px 0; text-wrap: pretty;\">Amazon Reserved a Nuclear Plant.<br \/>None of Them Are Running Yet.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; color: #888; margin: 0 0 60px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e6e6e6; padding-bottom: 16px;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/2088896\/000110465926045175\/tm2527015-19_s1a.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: #daa241; text-decoration: underline; text-underline-offset: 3px; text-decoration-thickness: 1px;\">X-Energy, Inc. S-1\/A (filed 2026-04-20) \u2197<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">In October 2024, Amazon signed a deal with <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">X-Energy<\/span>: an option to develop up to <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">5 gigawatts<\/strong> of nuclear power by 2039. In conventional terms, that is the scale of <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">four or five reactors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">And yet the company building those reactors, <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">X-Energy<\/span>, has <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">not a single reactor in operation<\/strong>. Not one physical unit yet exists in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"max-width: 720px; margin: 80px auto; padding: 0 20px;\">\n<div class=\"s1-hero-grid\" style=\"border-top: 1px solid #1a1a1a; border-bottom: 1px solid #1a1a1a; padding: 50px 0; display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr); gap: 0; text-align: center; align-items: start;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0 12px; border-right: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: clamp(28px, 4.5vw, 36px); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.05; color: #000; letter-spacing: -0.02em; white-space: nowrap;\">5 GWe<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; color: #daa241; margin-top: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;\">AMAZON RESERVE<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.04em; color: #888; margin-top: 6px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4;\">the Amazon reservation<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 12px; border-right: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: clamp(28px, 4.5vw, 36px); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.05; color: #000; letter-spacing: -0.02em; white-space: nowrap;\">0<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; color: #daa241; margin-top: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;\">OPERATING<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.04em; color: #888; margin-top: 6px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4;\">reactors running today<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0 12px;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: clamp(28px, 4.5vw, 36px); font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.05; color: #000; letter-spacing: -0.02em; white-space: nowrap;\">$1.03B<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; color: #daa241; margin-top: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;\">CASH<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.04em; color: #888; margin-top: 6px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4;\">cash on hand<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"max-width: 720px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 20px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-wrap: pretty;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 60px 0 1.5em 0;\">Even so, the company holds <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">roughly <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">$1.03<\/span> billion in cash<\/strong>. Posting a net loss of <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">about <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">$390<\/span> million a year<\/strong>, in 2026 it is selling stock to raise about <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">$694<\/span> million more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">What the <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">S-1<\/span> presents is a company selling, in the 2026 stock market, a power plant that is not supposed to run until the 2030s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.4em 0;\">Ten questions. 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Q3 onward is a one-time $25 unlock. <a href=\"https:\/\/buy.stripe.com\/cNicN40MM8gL1Kr76X67S09?client_reference_id=x-energy-en\" style=\"color: #daa241; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;\">Unlock the full piece for $25 &rarr;<\/a><\/p><\/div><p style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.22em; font-weight: 700; color: #daa241; margin: 100px 0 12px 0; text-transform: uppercase;\">Question 1<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: clamp(26px, 5vw, 32px); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.25; letter-spacing: -0.005em; color: #000; margin: 0 0 28px 0;\">What is this company, really?<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 0 30px 0; padding: 0 0 16px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #1a1a1a;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; color: #daa241; font-weight: 700; margin: 0 0 8px 0; text-transform: uppercase;\">Primary source \u00b7 from the S-1<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.6; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0;\">Prospectus Summary (p.1+), Business (p.116+) \u2014 from the S-1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">In one line: a company that designs <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">a nuclear reactor a fraction of the usual size<\/strong>, fueled by uranium sealed in tiny black balls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">A normal nuclear plant is enormous. A single unit runs to the gigawatt class. Building one costs <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">roughly <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">$7<\/span>&ndash;13 billion<\/strong> and takes <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">more than ten years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">What <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">X-Energy<\/span> builds is <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">80 megawatts per unit<\/strong> &mdash; less than a tenth the size of a normal reactor. Four are deployed together as one set (<span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">320 MW<\/span>). Build small, then line up as many as you need. It is closer to adding battery cells to a phone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">The industry calls it an &ldquo;SMR&rdquo; &mdash; short for Small Modular Reactor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\"><span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">X-Energy<\/span>&rsquo;s SMR has one more distinctive feature: the fuel is shaped as round balls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">A normal reactor machines uranium into <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">rod-shaped<\/span> fuel and inserts it into the core. <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">X-Energy<\/span> does it differently. Inside black balls about six centimeters across (called pebbles), it embeds grains of uranium. These balls are introduced as &ldquo;the most robust nuclear fuel on Earth&rdquo; (in the words of the US Department of Energy).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">Why a ball? Because &ldquo;even if an accident happens, <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">it physically cannot melt<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">A normal reactor (a <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">light-water<\/span> reactor) loses its cooling pumps when the power fails. Lose the coolant, and the core melts. That is the mechanism behind what happened at Fukushima Daiichi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\"><span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">X-Energy<\/span>&rsquo;s reactor is different. As the temperature rises, the nuclear reaction itself decelerates on its own. With no electricity and no water, heat escapes on airflow alone. The black ball wrapping the uranium is, by design, built to stop at a temperature where it does not melt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">Not &ldquo;stop the accident once it starts,&rdquo; but<br \/>&ldquo;<strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">bind it with the laws of physics so the accident never starts at all<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.22em; font-weight: 700; color: #daa241; margin: 100px 0 12px 0; text-transform: uppercase;\">Question 2<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: clamp(26px, 5vw, 32px); font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.25; letter-spacing: -0.005em; color: #000; margin: 0 0 28px 0;\">What does it compete on?<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 0 30px 0; padding: 0 0 16px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #1a1a1a;\">\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; color: #daa241; font-weight: 700; margin: 0 0 8px 0; text-transform: uppercase;\">Primary source \u00b7 from the S-1<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.6; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0;\">Prospectus Summary (Our Competitive Strengths, p.4+), Business (p.116+) \u2014 from the S-1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\"><span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">X-Energy<\/span> competes in three distinctive ways.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5; color: #000; margin: 30px 0 16px 0; border-left: 4px solid #daa241; padding: 0 0 0 16px;\">It does not build the plants itself<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">This is the first strange thing. <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">X-Energy<\/span> <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">sells the reactor design but does not build the reactor itself<\/strong>. It neither owns nor operates them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">It defines its own business this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"position: relative; margin: 36px 0; padding: 20px 22px 16px 22px; background: #f5f1e6; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden;\"><p>\n<span aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 2px; left: 10px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 42px; font-weight: 400; color: #daa241; line-height: 1;\">&ldquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0.02em; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding-left: 24px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">We do not construct the power plants and do not plan to own or operate the power plants once constructed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.16em; color: #daa241; margin: 0; padding-left: 24px; overflow-wrap: anywhere;\">X-ENERGY S-1 (APR 2026) \u2014 BUSINESS, OUR BUSINESS MODEL<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">So what does it sell instead?<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; padding-left: 24px; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.6em;\">Design license fees (&ldquo;use our reactor blueprint, pay us so much per year&rdquo;)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.6em;\">Construction support fees (regulatory filings, engineering, operator training)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.6em;\">Fuel (supplying those black balls throughout operation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">Rather than building machines in a factory and selling them, it is a business of <strong style=\"font-weight: 700; color: #000;\">selling blueprints, operating <span style=\"white-space:nowrap;\">know-how<\/span>, and fuel<\/strong> &mdash; for 60 years at a stretch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Newsreader', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.65; letter-spacing: 0; color: #1a1a1a; margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;\">What does this resemble? It is close to ARM, the company behind the CPUs running inside your phone. ARM does not make CPUs. 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