Nuclear Option: Texas A&M Building Small Reactors

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Texas A and M plants to develop small modular nuclear
reactors at its research campus in Bryan. Brent Bennett, energy
expert with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, says nuclear power
has been short changed in Texas for too long.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
High lead variable sources like wind and solar, they get
paid the same market prices nuclear go Ask anyone who
operates a nuclear coal plant in Texas that runs twenty
four seven, and I'll tell you if their energy is
not being properly valued and there's no way they could
finance a new plant in this market environment.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
He adds that nuclear energy is safe, clean, and consistent,
unlike wind and solar. Corey Yolson New's Radio seven forty
ktrh