The HT3R Energy Research Facility | The HT3R Energy Research Facility |
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We're Not Just a Reactor, we're a Gen IV Teaching and Test Reactor Facility! The proposed High-Temperature Teaching and Test Reactor (HT3R) Energy Research Facility is an important national asset that will help lead the US and world to a prosperous and energy-abundant future! As the name implies, it is a facility to both train engineers and scientist to utilize these new energy technologies, plus perform research, testing and development required to fully develop and exploit potential solutions to solve the urgent shortages in energy for both our transportation and fixed-based needs. We're Located in a Region that Knows about Nuclear! Its proposed location will be north of the University of Texas - Permian Basin (UTPB) campus in Andrews County Texas. This site is near the middle of our country's largest on-shore oil and gas production center called the Permian Basin. It is a joint project of the citizens of west Texas residing in Andrews, Ector and Midland County, plus UTPB and General Atomics of San Diego, California. Other key collaborators in the project are the University of Texas System, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Texas at El Paso, and Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We're a Multipurpose Energy Research facility! This proposed facility will be operated by UTPB and is presently scheduled to start engineering and licensing in late in 2006 and be constructed completed by late 2012. It will be a unique teaching and test facility that will help train a new generation of scientists and engineers on how to safely operate new nuclear technologies that will generate electricity at efficiencies above 50%, and with no green-house gases. Additionally, the excess process heat from these reactors is sufficient to economically create hydrogen from water and synfuels from coal and long-chain hydrocarbons. We would like to welcome you to this Web Site and the world of this new and exciting nuclear energy technology. We hope you will navigate around this web site to learn more about this important project. Organization of this Web Site
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