The proposed site being evaluated is the former site of I&M's Breed Generating Station.

If it goes ahead, the project is likely to create about 1,000 construction jobs and 100 permanent jobs.

The Indiana project would be the second one under the 2024 collaboration that saw Amazon taking a stake in X-energy and the two announcing a goal of adding more than 5 GW of new nuclear capacity to the US grid by 2039.