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 reached first criticality.

Southern Company and INL’s molten salt test loop marks a major step toward safer, efficient Gen IV nuclear reactors with real-time corrosion monitoring.

In 1965, ORNL successfully operated the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE), a proof-of-concept reactor that demonstrated the technology’s feasibility and inherent safety features.

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 ...

In certain designs, nuclear fuel, like uranium, is dissolved in the molten salt and flows into the reactor‘s core. However, a significant challenge with molten salt is that other elements can ...

The global molten salt reactors market was valued at US$10,350 million in 2021 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 5.9% during the forecast period 2022-2032.

There have been some intriguing stories lately about a different kind of reactor – one cooled by molten salt instead of the more typical water-cooled designs comprising the great majority of the world ...

Several MSR designs are currently under development. While many new designs follow similar principles to the reactors developed in the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment at the US Oak Ridge National ...

In the late 1960s, Oak Ridge National Labs in the USA built and operated a 7.5 MW thermal molten salt reactor. During 1968, it operated 75% of the time and generated 41,000 megawatt hours of heat. The ...

The Natura MSR-1, a 1-megawatt thermal molten salt reactor system developed in association with Natura Resources, will be used for the first time at ACU’s molten salt research reactor (MSRR).

Nuclear reactors could get smaller in the future. XH4D/Getty Images Molten-salt reactors have been around since the 1950s, but the US mostly abandoned them in the 1970s in favor of water-cooled ...

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics - part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - has been given approval by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to commission an experimental thorium-powered ...