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Episode 106: Why (and how) Abilene Christian University is building a nuclear reactor (Doug Robison)

Episode 106: Why (and how) Abilene Christian University is building a nuclear reactor (Doug Robison)

Released Thursday, 9th January 2025
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Episode 106: Why (and how) Abilene Christian University is building a nuclear reactor (Doug Robison)

Episode 106: Why (and how) Abilene Christian University is building a nuclear reactor (Doug Robison)

Episode 106: Why (and how) Abilene Christian University is building a nuclear reactor (Doug Robison)

Episode 106: Why (and how) Abilene Christian University is building a nuclear reactor (Doug Robison)

Thursday, 9th January 2025
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Since it opened almost 119 years ago, Abilene Christian University (ACU) has been educating, forming, and training Christian evangelists who spread the news of Jesus Christ around the world.

This year, however, the university is launching something that has the potential to change the world and save lives in a surprising new way.

ACU is building and preparing to fire up an experimental nuclear reactor that is cheaper, cleaner, safer and more scalable than any other kind of nuclear technology available in the world today. And it has the potential to cure cancer, eliminate existing nuclear waste and provide energy to the poorest regions of the world.

In this episode, you'll hear form lifelong Texas oil man (and nuclear convert) Doug Robison, who is on the ACU board of trustees and a principal investor in the university's nuclear experiment. He explains both the how and the why of ACU's nuclear turn and how this is an extension of the university's Christian mission.

Link to the American Nuclear Society's report on the ACU nuclear reactor

Link to the NEXT Lab at Abilene Christian University

Link to Natura Resources (the company Doug Robison founded to invest in the ACU nuclear experiment)

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