Reactors to be tested at Texas A&M and ACU are known as small modular reactors, or SMRs. Far smaller than industrial nuclear plants with their monolithic steam towers and the ability to produce 1,000 ...

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Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania ... in which atoms are split to create heat and make steam that is used to generate electricity.

Far smaller than industrial nuclear plants with their monolithic steam towers and the ability to produce 1,000 megawatts or more, SMRs would generate between 25 and several hundred megawatts.