The Netherlands' Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) has completed a major milestone irradiation test of molten nuclear fuel salts in its High Flux Reactor at Petten 37 mi (60 km) north ...

Danish innovator Copenhagen Atomics has secured a major financial endorsement from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to ...

INL scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in fuel production for next-gen molten salt reactors, overcoming a key hurdle in making these advanced nuclear power systems viable and bringing ...

The Natura Resources MSR-1, a liquid-fueled molten salt reactor was licensed last year by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...

In new molten salt plant designs, which don’t need to rely on water-based precedents and can introduce next-generation nuclear technology, the nuclear fuel could be dissolved into the medium of ...

Molten salt reactors ... Since U-233 is not naturally found but makes an ideal nuclear reactor fuel, it is a much sought-after fuel cycle. In This Issue Full issue . Legal & Regulatory.

Molten salt, as a coolant and nuclear fuel, offers numerous safety, efficiency and flexibility benefits. Interestingly, molten salt fuel comes with an inherent safety feature.

The brainchild of nuclear physicist Alvin Weinberg, it was the first nuclear reactor to use molten salt as both a coolant for fuel and a component of the fuel itself. It was also the first reactor ...

These include the Danish Seaborg Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR), the Moltex Stable Salt Reactor (SSR) and a number of designs that also use salt as coolant, but with solid fuel such as the ...

There was a 2019 presentation on the SINAP molten salt project and the long-term plans through 2050 for China’s molten salt reactors. They would be six times more efficient with nuclear fuel, would ...

IMSR molten salt nuclear will enable affordable clean water, steel, hydrogen and synthetic fuel October 14, 2017 September 15, 2017 by Brian Wang Integral Molten Salt Reactor is a proprietary design ...

“Furthermore, it will enable fuel recycling technologies so we can maximize our utilization of nuclear fuel.” As molten salt reactors operate, nuclear reactions create new chemical entities from ...