Texas Is Embracing Nuclear Power for the First Time in Decades

Texas is considering expanding its nuclear power generation capacity for the first time in over three decades as it eyes using small modular reactors to meet its increasing energy needs.

"One thing that we're looking at with a keen eye is the ability to expand—maybe dramatically expand—our capabilities with regard to nuclear-generated power," Texas Governor Greg Abbott told a meeting on nuclear power at the University of Texas in August last year.

The state currently has two large nuclear power plants, each with two reactors, and the newer one—Comanche Peak, to the west of Dallas—came online in 1993. Since then, Texas hasn't expanded its nuclear power generation portfolio.

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