Kairos Power and BWXT to Collaborate on Commercial TRISO Manufacturing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE KAIROS POWER AND BWXT TO COLLABORATE ON COMMERCIAL TRISO MANUFACTURING The Kairos Power-BWXT team will work together to explore opportunities for the optimization of commercial production of TRISO fuel for Hermes 2 and future commercial reactors ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sept. 3, 2025 – Kairos Power and BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) today announced an agreement to collaboratively explore technical and process opportunities for the optimization of commercial production of TRISO nuclear fuel to supply Kairos Power’s advanced reactor fleet and other potential customers. The arrangement will bring together Kairos Power’s established capabilities in annular graphite pebble production with BWXT’s more than 20 years of experience in TRISO fuel manufacturing and will consider possible paths to deliver fuel for the Hermes 2 Demonstration Plant and subsequent Kairos Power reactor deployments. Under the collaboration agreement, the joint team will explore opportunities to utilize the state-of-the-art TRISO Development Lab (TDL) at Kairos Power’s Albuquerque campus, the BWXT Innovation Campus in Lynchburg, Virginia, and BWXT’s existing TRISO production line to optimize TRISO fuel manufacturing and process automation. The companies have also agreed to explore opportunities to jointly develop a TRISO fuel fabrication facility, which would incorporate this experience and knowledge, along...

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