Hermes 2
Power plantUnder construction
Companies 2
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Kairos Power owns Hermes 2 Redesign announced Aug 2025: single reactor, 50 MWe, operations 2030.
“The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued construction permits for Hermes 2, two 35 MWt molten salt-cooled reactors with a shared power generation system, in November 2024.”
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Tennessee Valley Authority offtakes from Hermes 2
“The newly announced collaboration includes a first-of-a-kind power purchase agreement between Kairos Power and the Tennessee Valley Authority that will see Kairos Power's Hermes 2 reactor deliver power to the grid for Google's data centres, with plans to increase the demonstration unit's output.”
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- 1 https://www.ans.org/news/2026-04-21/article-7964/kairos-power-breaks-ground-on-first-powerproducing-reactor-in-oak-ridge/ ans.org · published 2026-04-21
- 2 https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/google-kairos-power-tva-announce-collaboration world-nuclear-news.org · published 2025-08-18