The Elysium Molten Chloride Salt Fast Reactor (MCSFR) is state-of-the-art in its design. Elysium’s technology is unique as it can provide base-load and clean power while addressing the current issues ...

Molten salt reactors are not new. The defining work was done on them at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee in the 1950s through the 1970s. It was a time of creativity in reactor design ...

“The IET will inform the design, licensing, and operation of an approximately 180-MW MCFR [Molten Chloride Fast Reactor] demonstration planned for the early 2030s timeframe,” Southern Company ...

Once operational, the advanced reactor will provide electricity and heat for communities and the industry. The benefit of the ...

TerraPower, a nuclear-energy company founded by Bill Gates, is building a molten-chloride fast reactor that could help lower carbon-dioxide emissions.

Southern Company, a leading energy company in the United States, is partnering with TerraPower to develop a molten chloride fast reactor (MCFR) that uses liquid salts as both a coolant and fuel. The U ...

Southern Company and the U.S. Department of Energy have announced a cooperative agreement to design, construct and operate the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment, the world’s first critical fast ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) chose two companies to further develop advanced nuclear reactor designs as part of an up to $80 million multi-year cost share agreement.

Southern Company and the US Department of Energy have signed an agreement to design, construct and operate the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment - a proof-of-concept critical fast-spectrum salt ...

The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) at INL will test a new type of nuclear reactor that uses a mixture of molten ...

Bill Gates' TerraPower is helping to build another nuclear reactor — this time in Idaho. It's partnering with the utility company Southern Company on an experimental molten-chloride fast reactor ...

They were awarded a $40 million grant by the Energy Department in 2015 to develop infrastructure needed to support molten chloride fast reactors (MCFR) (Energywire, Jan. 20, 2016).