The US Department of Energy (DOE), under the Advanced Reactor Development Program (ADRP), has awarded TerraPower, LLC (Bellevue, WA) and X-energy (Rockville, MD) $80 million each in initial funding to build two advanced nuclear reactors. These reactors will be delivered for licensing within seven years. Drs. Ivanov, Hawari, Avramova, Hou and Diaconeasa have a teaming agreement in place with X-Energy.