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OKLO, XE Stocks Jump After-Hours — Trump Administration Taps Oklo, X-Energy In $200M ...
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21 July 2026
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The Trump administration has allocated $200 million to accelerate advanced nuclear reactor development for AI data centers, with Oklo and X-Energy joining Microsoft and Nvidia in a federal DOE programme to reduce licensing, construction, and staffing timelines. The initiative responds to electricity supply constraints threatening US AI expansion and follows the White House's $17.5 billion loan programme for large commercial nuclear reactors.
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If you supply specialised components to advanced nuclear reactors—thermal systems, sensors, materials, controls—Oklo and X-Energy just became funded customers with federal backing and a hard deadline to deploy. The bottleneck isn't capital or demand anymore; it's manufacturing scale.
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AI Infrastructure · Clean Energy · nuclear-power · ai-energy · federal-funding · grid-infrastructure · advanced-reactors