Collaboration
Connecting expertise to advance energy solutions.The Center for Advanced Small Modular and Microreactor at Texas A&M is currently collaborating with national and international universities, national laboratories, nuclear utilities, and other private companies.
The Center for Advanced Small Modular and Microreactors is a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) center. We are well-positioned to conduct research that furthers advanced nuclear reactors’ design, construction and operation.
Building upon TEES’ vast innovation capabilities, the CASMR supports work across the technology development spectrum. The spectrum ranges from basic materials research to reactor design, manufacturing and deployment.
We join a diverse group of domestic and international industry and government organizations and laboratories to collaborate on nuclear energy initiatives. Thus, our research aligns with the most pressing needs for decarbonizing the power sector and the broader energy system.
By encouraging industry engagement, the center serves as an integrated solutions platform. We will enable applied research with an awareness of the practical and market barriers that must be tackled to move technologies from lab to market.
The CASMR will pursue and support new approaches for multidisciplinary nuclear research and development, education and external partnerships.
Our approaches cross departmental and college boundaries. They address all facets of the energy landscape that connect engineering, sciences, technologies, economics, law and policy decisions.
The center’s interdisciplinary research program will focus on the nuclear energy of small modular reactors and microreactor technologies important to industry, national laboratories, the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Our engagement with energy end-users will lead to solutions for the use of nuclear-generated energy (heat) from small modular reactors and microreactors. These solutions will meet energy needs for the hydrogen economy, water desalination by nuclear power, and chemical heat processes.
Small modular and micro reactors consist of related technologies and applications of nuclear science, industrial processes, education and training, energy systems, space exploration, and defense.
Utility Partnerships
Partnerships with utility companies that generate, transmit, or distribute essential energy services like electricity and natural gas to the public.
Company Partnerships
Partnerships with publicly-traded and privately-owned companies and organizations.
National Laboratory Partnerships
Partnerships with national laboratories and government-funded or government-owned research facilities dedicated to long-term scientific and technological development.
University Partnerships
Partnerships with national and international institutions of higher learning that offer educational degrees and academic research.
