Companies / org-abilene-christian-university
Abilene Christian University
Texas university that holds NRC construction permit CPRR-124 for the Molten Salt Research Reactor and hosts it in its Dillard Science and Engineering Research Center, with Natura Resources.
- Roles
- Research, Industrial host
- Organization type
- research institution
- Country
- United States
- Aliases
- —
- Listing status
- Unknown
- Exchange / ticker
- —
- Ownership / control
- Unknown
Not established. - Website
- —
- Confidence
- medium
- Record reviewed
- 2026-10-18 (record review date, not proof of current activity)
Linked designs
- No designs tracked here.
Tracked deployment projects
1 linked project records: 1 construction. These include proposals and historical cancelled or suspended plans; the count is not reactors built. Stages are the last recorded classifications, not proof of current activity. A recorded operator/host field does not by itself establish who will operate a reactor. A project without a recorded regulatory action is not necessarily without permission.
- Natura MSR-1 demonstration at Abilene Christian University — Construction · United States
Recorded link: application filing entity, site host · project record checked 2026-10-18 · 1 recorded project action · sources
Ownership & relationships
- No dated parent/JV relationships recorded beyond ownership notes.
Milestones
- None recorded in this release.
Organization-level unresolved information
- None noted for this organization; linked projects may still have open evidence.
Sources
- Federal Register 89 FR 77197 (20 Sep 2024): ACU Molten Salt Research Reactor construction permit (regulator_primary, accessed 2026-10-03)
- ANS Nuclear Newswire: Natura executes an OTA with the DOE (reputable_press, published 19 Dec 2025, accessed 2026-10-18)