A nuclear fission and fuel-cycle company and developer of the EAGL-1 advanced reactor

Grounded in nuclear expertise. Focused on delivering power.

Who We Are

FANCO believes advanced nuclear should solve customer problems, not create new ones. That means practical technologies, commercially available systems, and a deployment model that address the immediate needs of the customer.

First American Nuclear Company (FANCO) develops energy solutions around the needs of the customer, with advanced nuclear technology at our core. We bring together nuclear expertise, conventional generation and project delivery to address near-term power requirements while planning for a long-term nuclear future.

Our turnkey approach connects development, engineering, construction coordination and operations, with project financing where appropriate. We start with the customer’s demand, site, schedule and utility relationships, then develop the technical and commercial approach around those requirements.

FANCO began with a group of nuclear engineers and scientists whose careers were shaped by America’s fast reactor programs. Many worked directly on the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF), a 400-megawatt thermal (MWt) sodium-cooled fast reactor at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford site in Washington state.

FFTF demonstrated that advanced fast-reactor systems could be operated safely and reliably and provided a full-scale platform for advanced fuel and materials irradiation, reactor-physics work, and passive-safety testing. Its operating data continue to be preserved and used by U.S. national laboratories and international researchers to support advanced-reactor analysis and benchmarking.

Experience built in the field

What remained was a team of engineers who had tested its fuel assemblies, ran its sodium loops, and built its safety record firsthand. Advanced-reactor development is often discussed through models, simulations, and conceptual designs. The people behind FANCO came from a different starting point. Fast-spectrum reactor physics, liquid-metal operations, advanced fuels, and passive-safety behavior have been demonstrated through decades of U.S. reactor programs. FANCO’s challenge is to apply that technical foundation to a reactor and deployment model that can be licensed, manufactured, financed, and repeated commercially.

That team has grown to include experts covering all aspects of the industry, from regulatory and licensing to commercial reactor operations to supply chain and project delivery. FANCO prides itself in a team made up of hands-on doers.

Different starting points, one customer-focused approach

That’s why this team designed the FANCO deployment platform and EAGL-1 around the industry’s unsolved problems: short-term power needs, constrained supply chains, siting, and fuel-cycle management.

Bringing the right capabilities together

Customers need different paths to reliable power. FANCO’s offerings address those differences while bringing generation, infrastructure and long-term planning into one coordinated project.

Delivering power requires coordination across technology, engineering, construction, operations and finance. FANCO brings its team and delivery partners together around a shared project plan, working with customers, utilities, site owners and capital providers from the early stages of development.

Our technical foundation draws on current company work, prior contractual work and the experience our people gained across U.S. Department of Energy and national-laboratory programs.

Where we are today