A novel small modular reactor design will use its waste heat to desalinate water produced in Texan oil and gas wells.

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National ... meaning that the reactivity of the fission process is inversely linked to the temperature of the salt coolant.

The company’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) is a Generation IV ... including power generation, industrial process heat, and desalination. The IMSR is also a scalable technology that ...

When most of us think of nuclear power, we often recall the negative aspects associated with this type of energy. However, Abilene Christian University is striving to change that perception with its ...

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 ...

Significant advancements in nuclear power are being made right in West Texas with Natura Resources’ molten salt research reactor currently ... Having gone through the process with the Nuclear ...

Research led by scientists at various institutes in China has delivered key insights into the synergistic damage caused by irradiation and corrosion in molten salt reactors (MSR). After studying ...