Small nuclear reactors may be coming to Texas, boosted by interest from Gov. Abbott [Video]

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This is the last of a three-part series on emerging energy sources and Texas’ role in developing them. You can read part one, on hydrogen fuel, here, and part two, on geothermal energy, here.

Gov. Greg Abbott took the stage at the University of Texas at Austin last August to discuss building up an energy source in the state. Unlike the oil and gas industry that Abbott often promotes, this fuel could create reliable power without also pumping pollution into the air.

Abbott was there to talk about nuclear power — not big reactors like the ones that already operate in Texas, but a new generation of smaller nuclear reactors that companies are pitching as both safe and less financially risky than large nuclear power plants because they cost less.

Abbott joined a panel with the CEO of …