Programmes and agreements / prg-us-texas-tech-acu-natura-produced-water-msr
Texas Tech, Abilene Christian University, Natura Resources and Texas Produced Water Consortium molten-salt-reactor…
Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University, Natura Resources and the Texas Produced Water Consortium announced a memorandum of understanding to advance molten salt reactor technology integrated with desalination of oil-field produced water, backed by a Texas Legislature appropriation to Texas Tech with a subaward to ACU for the MSR-1. It is a research partnership, not a new plant, the MSR-1 at ACU is recorded as its own project.
- Type
- Research programme
- Countries concerned
- United States
- Region named by the sources
- Texas
- Participants and roles
- Research: Texas Tech University
- Research: Abilene Christian University
- Developer or vendor: Natura Resources
- Research: Texas Produced Water Consortium (TxPWC)
- Government: Texas Legislature
- Designs named
- Natura MSR-1
- Scale as stated
- Not stated by the sources
- Announced or first reported
- Jan 2025
- Status
- Status not established
Research memorandum and state appropriation, the reactor involved is the existing ACU MSR-1 project. No separate deployment. - Confidence
- medium
- Last checked
- 2026-10-14 (record review date, not proof of current activity)
Related deployment projects
- Natura MSR-1 demonstration at Abilene Christian University — Construction · United States
Sources
- Texas Tech, ACU, Natura Resources Announce Path to Deployment for Nuclear Reactor, Desalination of Produced Water (academic_primary, published Jul 2025, accessed 2026-10-14)