# Texas Thorium, LLC

> A heat-pipe microreactor on standard low-enriched uranium, with a planned thorium option. College Station, Texas.

Texas Thorium, LLC is a College Station, Texas company designing a solid-core, heat-pipe-cooled microreactor to run on standard low-enriched uranium, with a thorium-uranium fuel as a planned later option. Its research partner is the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), through the Center for Advanced Small Modular and Micro Reactors (CASMR). The company funded an earlier accelerator-driven thorium molten-salt research program at Texas A&M in 2019 and 2020. Texas Thorium is led by Kathaleen Wall, its President and owner.

## Key facts

- What it is: a solid-core, heat-pipe-cooled microreactor designed for standard low-enriched uranium (LEU), enriched below 5 percent uranium-235.
- Thorium: a thorium-uranium fuel is a planned later option, pending the neutronics. The company puts no date on it.
- Where it stands: the design stage. The first step is a 30-month program with Texas A&M that builds and tests an electrically heated 100-kilowatt-thermal heat-pipe testbed, now in negotiation.
- Texas Thorium holds no Nuclear Regulatory Commission license or permit and no Department of Energy authorization, and engagement with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not begun.
- Location: College Station, Texas.

## Who the company is (and is not)

- Texas Thorium is an independent company. Texas A&M, through TEES and its CASMR center, is its research partner, not its parent.
- Natura Resources, which works with Abilene Christian University, is a different company with its own molten-salt program. Texas Thorium is not affiliated with it.

## Contact

- Inquiries: info@txthorium.com
- Website: https://www.txthorium.com/ (texasthorium.com redirects here)