The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

Moving toward the goal of having an operational molten salt nuclear reactor in the next decade, Southern Company and the ...

To meet energy demands and reestablish the nation's energy dominance, U.S. companies are developing several types of advanced ...

High temperatures and ionizing radiation create extremely corrosive environments inside a nuclear reactor. To design ...

floating power plants, and ship propulsion. This sounds all well and good, but why haven't molten salt reactors been built before? The answer is that such reactors have been used since the very ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors ...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently revealed a new molten salt test loop to support the development of advanced reactors ...

The Molten Salt Flow Loop Test Bed is meant to allow for continuous, real-time monitoring and analysis that makes molten salt research more efficient.

Terrestrial Energy Inc. (“Terrestrial Energy” or the “Company”) is developing a small modular nuclear plant (the Terrestrial “IMSR plant”) using ...

The resulting mixture acts as both the coolant and fuel inside a molten salt reactor. ORNL operated two experimental molten salt reactors in the 1950s and 1960s, but the United States has none in ...

This animation provides an overview of the Terrestrial Energy Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR), which is the heart of an innovative small modular cogeneration plant designed to produce carbon ...

Texas A&M University recently selected Terrestrial Energy to partner on the construction of a commercial IMSR plant at the Texas A&M RELLIS campus, contributing to the university’s goal of ...