The Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing Laboratory, or NEXT Lab, has been a project at ACU since 2017. It strives to solve some of the world’s biggest issues, including clean energy, pure water, and medical isotopes or discoveries.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Abilene Christian University (ACU) the construction permit for an advanced nuclear reactor called the Natura MSR-1. This is the first liquid salt-fueled reactor ever licensed by the NRC and the first university research reactor approved in the US in over 30 years.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a construction permit to Abilene Christian University to build the Natura MSR-1, marking the first liquid salt-fueled reactor licensed by the NRC in American history and the first U.

Abilene Christian University's molten salt research reactor will be the first deployment of the Natura MSR-1, a 1 MW thermal molten salt reactor system.

Developer Natura Resources would deploy its MSR-1 system at Abilene Christian University and operate the 1-MW in tandem with the school’s Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a licence to Abilene Christian University for the construction of a molten salt research reactor on its campus in Abilene, Texas. This marks the first construction permit for a liquid-fueled advanced reactor and only the second for any advanced reactor issued by the NRC.

ACU's molten salt research reactor (MSRR) will be the first deployment of the Natura MSR-1, a 1 megawatt thermal molten salt reactor system. This construction permit is only the second ever for an advanced nuclear reactor – a new generation of nuclear power designed to be safer,