The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...

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Terrestrial Energy Inc. (“Terrestrial Energy” or the “Company”) is developing a small modular nuclear plant (the Terrestrial “IMSR plant”) using ...

Sulzer is developing advanced pumps for Hyme Energy’s patented molten hydroxide salt energy storage solution. Building on the ...

Researchers at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have demonstrated a new method to track chemical changes in ...

LIBS plasma of molten salt aerosols is formed from a sparging salt vessel. Credit: Zechariah Kitzhaber/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of ...

After years of effort, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) scientists have created fuel for the world’s first fast-spectrum molten salt reactor. The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) will test ...

The resulting mixture acts as both the coolant and fuel inside a molten salt reactor. ORNL operated two experimental molten salt reactors in the 1950s and 1960s, but the United States has none in ...