X-energy: infrastructure company

Overview

Maryland-based developer of the Xe-100 small modular reactor, an 80 MWe high-temperature gas-cooled design, and TRISO-X fuel. Listed on Nasdaq as XE. Amazon is an investor and development partner.

Verified record

Verified deployments: None on file
Active incidents: None on file

Key facts

Sullivan County, IN SMR study (company-stated, Oct 2026)

Joint development agreement with AEP to study a 960 MW plant of 12 Xe-100 units at the former Breed coal site; Amazon provides development capital. Feasibility stage.

Amazon nuclear target (company-stated, Oct 2026)

X-energy and Amazon aim to add more than 5 GW of Xe-100 capacity to the US grid by 2039. Indiana would be the second project after Energy Northwest's Cascade facility.

Data & sources

Press releases

1

Web sources

4

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Partnerships

Every company X-energy has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

1 total1 operating

Most-frequent partners

1Amazon1× joint10 total
2American Electric Power1× joint

Most recent

AEP x X-energy x Amazon (Sullivan County SMR)2026-10-19
with American Electric Poweroperating

Relationships

AAmerican Electric PowerCo-developer AAmazonCustomer

Safety record

No incidents on record for X-energy.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Mentioned on (3)

Registry pages whose text names X-energy.

Companies (2)

Amazon, American Electric Power

People (1)

Kam Ghaffarian

Partnerships

1 total · 1 operating

Every company X-energy has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

Most recent

AEP x X-energy x Amazon (Sullivan County SMR)2026-10-19
with American Electric Poweroperating

Most-frequent partners

1Amazon1× joint10 total
2American Electric Power1× joint

All 1 partnerships

open in the atlas →

AEP x X-energy x Amazon (Sullivan County SMR)
withAmerican Electric Power,Amazon10
development2026-10-19
announcedoperating

Recent activity

Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.

Record createdOct 19, 2026
Added to the verified registry

Full change history →

Sources (5)

Common questions

What is X-energy?

Maryland-based developer of the Xe-100 small modular reactor, an 80 MWe high-temperature gas-cooled design, and TRISO-X fuel. Listed on Nasdaq as XE. Amazon is an investor and development partner.

What does X-energy make?

X-energy has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry.

Is X-energy publicly traded?

Yes. X-energy is publicly traded on public markets, per the DEPLOY registry.

How can I invest in X-energy?

X-energy is publicly traded (public markets), so its shares can be bought through any broker.

Where is X-energy headquartered?

X-energy is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.

Who owns X-energy?

X-energy is publicly held by its shareholders.

Is X-energy a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, X-energy ranks in roughly the top 20% of companies tracked by the registry.

Is X-energy safe?

X-energy has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Methodology: Unreviewed · 5 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-19

Verification posture

Unreviewed

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-10-19

Sources by quality tier

4: unclassified; Unclassified source
1: primary-company-ir; Company IR disclosure

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.

No press coverage on file for X-energy yet. Coverage appears here automatically as articles are ingested from our press sources.

Machine-readable surfaces

Markdown mirror: /companies/x-energy.md
RSS feed: /companies/x-energy/feed.xml
JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
REST API: /v1/companies/308387de-9c4b-4ff1-a2b5-4a9b16cf40b2
Revision history: /companies/x-energy/history
Data documentation: /data
Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP

Reality vs attention

Not enough verified signal yet to place X-energy against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.

6-month trend

Peer rankingTop 20% of category

vs funding peers-18.9 ptsbelow funding-adj. expected

Analysis

Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.

Dimension breakdown

Verified signal

Insufficient data

Insufficient data

Insufficient data

Insufficient data

Insufficient data

Attention (reach, not merit)

Market Presence →

22.30.0LOW

DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.

DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed

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Last computed: Oct 26, 2026

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