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Talk with Texas RE: Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

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Webex Only

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Thursday, 27 February 2025 12:30 AM

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Thursday, 27 February 2025 01:30 PM

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Andrew Harmon is the vice president of operations and business development at Natura Resources, LLC, where he leads strategy development and investor relations. Andrew’s professional experience includes executive roles in finance/operations in the manufacturing industry and corporate development positions at Accenture. Andrew was also a founding member of the advisory board of the NEXT Lab at Abilene Christian University (ACU). Prior to Natura, he spent two years working at ACU as the NEXT Lab director of commercialization & development. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and finance from ACU and a M.S. in technology commercialization from McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

Derek Haas is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Haas's research interests focus on radiation detection for nuclear arms control, non-proliferation, and advanced reactor design and licensing. This includes the fundamental physics of radioactive decay processes, fission yields, environmental transport of radionuclides, and detection techniques. Dr. Haas’s research is primarily experimental and uses the 1.1 MW TRIGA Mark II reactor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is one of five surrogate inspectors from the United States for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and is a technical advisor for U.S. nuclear arms control and non-proliferation policy development. He has also contributed to the analysis of the Fukushima nuclear reactor accident and nuclear tests in the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea.

Small modular nuclear reactors have the potential to transform the Texas Interconnection. Learn more about this technology and what it means from guest speakers Doug Robinson from Natura Resources and Derek Haas from UT Austin.