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

Initially developed in the 1950s, molten salt reactors have benefits in higher efficiencies and lower waste generation. Some designs do not require solid fuel, which eliminates the need for ...

Significant advancements in nuclear power are being made right in West Texas with Natura Resources’ molten salt research reactor currently under construction at Abilene Christian University.

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 ...

TerraPower is now also supported by the US Department of Energy, which gave the company an $80 million grant in October 2020 as part of its Advanced Reactor ... and molten-salt energy storage ...

But the Natrium reactor is different. Combining a sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten salt energy storage, this innovative technology addresses many of the concerns associated with traditional ...

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 ...

The United States has made history by becoming the first nation to use cutting-edge molten salt reactor technology to produce freshwater from scratch. This ground-breaking invention, which uses ...

They include Bill Gates's TerraPower, which is planning to build a 345MW molten chloride salt-cooled reactor in Wyoming that ...

For decades, molten salt reactors have been expected to possess ... Maltsev et al, Transient Covalency in Molten Uranium(III) ...

(via Kyle Hill) Since the 1960s, we’ve known that light water nuclear reactors weren’t the only way to generate electricity by splitting the atom. One alternative design, so-called “molten salt ...

Molten-salt reactors would be safer, more sustainable, and would produce more power than those in use today. They are not prone to hydrogen explosions, such as the one involved in the Fukushima ...