First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor of Its Kind Unveiled for Calhoun County Dow Chemical Plant

Brad Johnson is a senior reporter for The Texan and an Ohio native who graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2017. He covers Texas politics along with a focus on fiscal and energy policy.

Gov. Abbott talks alongside Dow CEO Jim Fitterling and X-energy CEO Clay Sell at UT-Austin.

The first site of a unique class of small modular nuclear reactors (SMR) deployed outside of Russia or China is set for construction on Texas’ Gulf Coast.

Expected to be online by the end of the decade, the SMR will be built on-site at Dow Chemical Corporation’s Seadrift plant southeast of Victoria in Calhoun County. The 320-megawatt (MW) plant, announced by Dow last year, will begin construction in 2025.

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Rendering of the Seadrift plant, courtesy of X-energy.

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Brad Johnson is a senior reporter for The Texan and an Ohio native who graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2017. He covers Texas politics along with a focus on fiscal and energy policy.