BWX Technologies

Naval reactor and nuclear fuel manufacturer building Project Pele, a 1.5 MWe transportable gas-cooled microreactor for the US Department of Defense, and the civil BANR microreactor.

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1.5 MWe↗Per module
2028↗First power target

Facts

Source per value
DesignThe company's lead reactor design name(s) as the company or its regulator names them; semicolon-separated when it markets more than one.
Project Pele; BANR 1
TypeReactor coolant/technology family. Gas-cooled fast is separated from thermal HTGR designs; sodium-cooled includes both fast and thermal-spectrum designs.
HTGR 1
Size classDerived from published electric output per module: Micro is 20 MWe or less, Small is above 20 and up to 300 MWe, Medium is above 300 MWe. Legacy heat-only classifications use one third of thermal output as an explicit comparison convention, not a claimed electric rating.
Micro 1
MWe / module MWeNet (or gross where only gross is published) electric output of one reactor module as the company or its regulator publishes it. Null for heat-only designs.
1.5 1
MWt / module MWtThermal output of one reactor module as published by the company or its regulator.
Not published
FuelFuel form and enrichment class as published (for example LEU UO2, HALEU TRISO, fuel salt).
TRISO 4
Licensing stageFurthest licensing milestone reached with any national regulator: Operating; Construction licensed (construction permit or licence issued); DOE test authorization (a test reactor authorized or built under the US Department of Energy, for example the Reactor Pilot Program or the DOME test bed); Construction under review (construction, site or creation application filed); Design approved (design certification, standard design approval or GDA completed); Design review (formal design review under way, such as UK GDA, CNSC vendor design review or a French safety-options review); Pre-licensing (pre-application engagement only).
Not published
RegulatorsNational regulators the company has formally engaged (NRC, CNSC, ONR, ASN, and others), semicolon-separated.
Not published
Licensing detailThe milestones behind the licensing stage, by regulator, with dates.
Not published
Latest milestoneDate of the milestone that sets the licensing stage (for example the day a construction permit was issued or an application docketed).
Not published
First siteLocation of the first-of-a-kind commercial or demonstration unit, with the owner or host.
Project Pele: built in Lynchburg, Virginia, tested at Idaho National Laboratory 3
First powerYear the company or its host utility targets for first operation (criticality or commercial operation, as stated) of the first unit. A plan, not a guarantee.
2,028 3
OwnershipPublic (listed shares), Private (venture or privately held), Subsidiary (a unit or joint venture of a larger company) or State-owned.
Public 4
TickerExchange and ticker of the company or its listed parent.
NYSE: BWXT 4
ListedFirst trading day of the company's shares (or its listed parent's current ticker) on the exchange named in Ticker.
2015-07-01 5
FundingHeadline funding: equity raised, public listing, government cost-share awards (DOE ARDP, GAIN, Great British Nuclear and others), with amounts and dates.
DoD Strategic Capabilities Office selected BWXT to build Project Pele (June 2022); BANR supported by the DOE Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. 2
Data-center dealTrue when the company has a signed, announced agreement (PPA, framework, MOU, investment or capacity reservation) with a hyperscaler or data-center operator.
Not published
Data-center partnersHyperscalers and data-center operators the company has a signed or announced agreement with, semicolon-separated.
Not published
Data-center dealsWhat each data-center or hyperscaler agreement covers: partner, type of agreement, capacity and date.
Not published
HQCountry of the company's headquarters.
United States 4
RegionHeadquarters region.
North America 4

Sources

  1. POWER: Project Pele breaks ground accessed 2026-11-11
  2. BWXT to build first advanced microreactor in US accessed 2026-11-11
  3. Axios: Project Pele schedule accessed 2026-11-11
  4. BWXT: full TRISO core delivered for Pele accessed 2026-11-11
  5. BWXT: spin-off complete, BWXT trades on NYSE accessed 2026-11-11

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