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Natura Resources is proud to announce the deployment of two advanced nuclear projects in Texas, aimed at enhancing energy security and reliability for the rapidly growing state. These deployments, located in the Permian Basin and at Texas A&M University's RELLIS Campus, represent significant strides in addressing Texas' energy and water needs.

New MOU aims to address Texas’ water and energy challenges by integrating advanced reactor systems with desalination and sustainable energy production.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a construction permit (CP) for the deployment of the Natura Resources’ MSR-1 system at Abilene Christian University (ACU). This marks the first construction permit for a liquid-fueled advanced reactor and only the second for any advanced reactor issued by the NRC.

In a pivotal moment for Texas’s energy infrastructure, Natura Resources is taking a prominent role in addressing the state’s future critical electrical power generation needs, as highlighted in the 2024 Interim Report from the Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs. Leveraging cutting-edge small modular reactor (SMR) technology, Natura Resources is driving forward a reliable, sustainable, and resilient energy future for Texas.

The partnership will develop facilities to supply two new forms of critical resources through water treatment and dispatchable energy.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced last week that it expects to complete the safety assessment and issue a construction permit by September 30th for the deployment of the first Natura Resources reactor.

A recente Forbes article by David Blackmon pointed out two critical weak spots in the Texas grid: The fact that the construction of new thermal generation capacity in high-demand regions like the DFW market has failed to keep pace with demand growth; and The heavy reliance on costly transmission lines to move power generated by wind or solar industrial sites hundreds of miles to those demand centers.

Doug Robison, CEO of Natura Resources, recently appeared on the Elemental Energy podcast with Marcia Leonard.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn joined Natura Resources and Abilene city leaders Tuesday for a tour of the Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing (NEXT) lab at Abilene Christian University (ACU). While he has long supported the program, this was the Senator’s first time getting an in-person look at operations, an opportunity he says was both enlightening and inspiring.

Doug Robison (Founder & President) and Andrew Harmon (VP of Operations and Business Development) were recently invited to participate in a roundtable with Congressman August Plfuger. The event, organized by Americans for Prosperity, focused on energy and what could be done to unleash Texas energy.

Natura Resources moved one step closer to deploying its first molten salt reactor (MSR) system with the grand opening on Sept. 1 of the facility that will house this first-of-a-kind reactor. The 28,000-square-foot Science and Engineering Research Center (SERC) at Abilene Christian University (ACU) is the first advanced reactor facility constructed in the U.S. and the site where Natura will first demonstrate its reactor technology.

Natura Resources leadership attended the USNIC Advanced Reactor Summit XI in Houston this week. Doug Robison, founder and president of Natura, was the keynote speaker and spoke to an audience of over 500 people about the latest developments in our effort to design and deploy liquid-fueled molten salt reactors to meet the world's carbon-free energy needs.

ExL Petroleum retiree Doug Robison has devoted $3.2 million from his foundation to advanced nuclear research, working with Abilene Christian University in Texas to build a molten salt research reactor. The reactor has received a construction permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with a final construction permit likely by May and the reactor operational by 2026.

The Texas Nuclear Alliance, an association focused on bringing together leaders and grassroots in the nuclear industry who aim to make Texas the new world leader in the peaceful and productive uses of nuclear technology, on Tuesday evening hosted a screening of iconic director Oliver Stone’s thought-provoking documentary NUCLEAR NOW.

Energy and electricity topics are dominating conversations in Texas after residents spent a week battling a major winter storm. Abilene Christian University, along with two other Texas universities, is at the forefront of nuclear technology to address problems plaguing traditional energy sources – including unpredictable weather…

In Episode 68 of The Energy Transition Podcast, David Blackmon talks with Doug Robison, CEO of Natura Resources. Doug is the driving force behind the project to develop Texas’s first molten salt nuclear reactor, working in a partnership with four universities: Abilene Christian University, The University of Texas, Texas A&M University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Georgia Institute of Technology will be one of four schools participating in the Natura Resources Research Alliance which is being led by Abilene Christian University and Natura Resources, LLC. The consortium’s goal is to “design, license and commission the first university-based molten salt research reactor, which ACU will host and own.”…

The University of Texas at Austin is part of a consortium of four universities designing a new nuclear research reactor to advance research in clean energy. The consortium of universities is partnering with Natura Resources on a $30.5 million effort to design and license the facility that will be located at and owned by Abilene Christian University…

A small private university, situated in a former hub city for cattle drives in northern Texas, is building itself into a key center for advanced nuclear research that could drive small and safer reactor progress – maybe even for nuclear microgrids.

Texas A&M University College of Engineering researchers will play a key role in a consortium sponsored by Natura Resources, LLC to build an advanced research reactor in the state of Texas. The $30.5 million effort to design and license a research reactor is a collaboration with three other universities: Abilene Christian University, Georgia Institute of Technology and The University of Texas at Austin…

Abilene Christian University’s Natura Resources Research Alliance, is working on new technology that could potentially change the world…

For the fifth year in a row the student experience at ACU, in and out of the classroom, was ranked as one of the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report in the categories of Study Abroad, Learning Communities, Service Learning, First-Year Experience and Senior Capstone. ACU is again the highest-ranking university in Texas in these benchmarks related to student success.

In the thought-provoking documentary NUCLEAR NOW, iconic director Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change, ensure our continued survival, and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy. In the film, director Stone explores Climate Change: the existential crisis and challenge of our time. Stone passionately presents the possibility of meeting the challenge through the power of nuclear energy.