Exactly one year ago, Amazon made a bet on the small modular reactor developer X-energy, investing in the startup and pledging to build its first 320-megawatt plant in the retail giant’s home state of Washington. 

Today, Amazon is unveiling its updated plans for what it’s dubbed the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility. The planned-for plant is now triple the original proposed size, and will be constructed in three phases — each with four of X-energy’s 80-MW, high-temperature gas-cooled reactors — totaling 12 reactors pumping out a maximum of 960 MW of electricity. The facility, built as part of a partnership between Amazon and Energy Northwest, will supply the utility with power and augment the Columbia Generating Station, the Pacific Northwest’s only existing nuclear plant. 

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