Projects / prj-tetra-1-rellis
Project TETRA / TETRA-1 pilot at Texas A&M RELLIS
DOE names TETRA-1 at Texas A&M RELLIS; Terrestrial’s January 2026 agreement connects the pilot to IMSR technology. This announced demonstration is separate from the commercial RELLIS IMSR proposal. Pilot output is unknown. The worker-safety variance and OTA pathway do not establish reactor construction or operating permission.
- Stage
- Announced
- Design
- IMSR (Integral Molten Salt Reactor) (SMR)
- Technology
- Molten salt reactor (MSR) · molten_salt
- Operator(s)
- Terrestrial Energy
- Vendor(s)
- Terrestrial Energy
- Location
- Texas A&M RELLIS campus — TETRA-1 planned site · United States · precision: undisclosed
- Coordinates
- undisclosed / not plotted
- Electrical capacity
- — · scope: module
- Thermal capacity
- —
- Modules planned
- —
- Inclusion basis
- smr_by_design_class
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-10-02 (publication/verification date)
Milestones & dated events
- No dated milestones recorded yet.
Regulatory actions
- None recorded in this release.
Sources
- DOE advanced-reactor worker-safety variance — named project sites (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-02)
- Terrestrial Energy TETRA DOE agreement (company_primary, accessed 2026-10-02)