Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

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

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) create a number of prototypes, starting in 1954 when the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) reached first ...

After five years of trying to find the right ingredients, scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) believe they have ...

After five years of research, scientists at the US Idaho National Laboratory (INL) believe they have created the perfect ...

Thorizon of the Netherlands announced it has secured EUR20 million (USD22 million) in funding to accelerate the development ...

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It will build its small, one megawatt molten salt reactor beneath a newly-completed laboratory at Abilene Christian University, in an underground trench 25 feet deep and 80 feet long, covered by a ...

The southern Netherlands province of North Brabant is investing nearly €4m ($4.28m) to develop a new generation of molten ...

A National Geographic emerging explorer with a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, she wants to resurrect the molten-salt reactor, a 1960s-era design that she hopes will revive nuclear energy as a ...

The Aurora powerhouse is a liquid-metal-cooled fast reactor that is designed to ... and placed into a high-temperature molten ...

However, thorium could be used to make a new type of reactor called a molten-salt reactor. Thorium is 'fertile', which means that an atom of thorium can be transformed into an atom of uranium-232 ...