The model, known as a moment tensor potential system, provides information on atoms’ complex interactions. This revolutionary ...

Molten salt reactors offer a number of advantages over traditional nuclear reactors ... the ability to use a variety of fuel types, including thorium; and the potential for passive safety features ...

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

The researchers think the work has other potential applications in molten salt nuclear reactors or in different types of manufacturing processes, such as glass, epoxies or carbon fiber processing ...

Texas Tech, Abilene Christian University and Natura Resources are collaborating to develop advanced nuclear technology for ...

The permit allows TerraPower to begin building the non-nuclear portions of its plant, including its "energy island," which will hold the plant's turbines and molten-salt energy storage tanks.

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge ... ARE was an off-shoot of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program that had its roots in the US Air Force, before it was ...

Can nuclear reactors help power Texas’ future? A project under construction at Abilene Christian University could help answer ...

A new 1 megawatt thermal nuclear molten salt reactor will be built in 2026 and will be lowered into a cement encased trench in a new building in Texas. Rusty Towell of Nature Energy showed the new ...

The researchers think the work has other potential applications in molten salt nuclear reactors or in different types of manufacturing processes, such as glass, epoxies or carbon fiber processing, in ...