Methane (CH4) pyrolysis, a reaction that produces hydrogen without emitting carbon dioxide, often utilizes molten media ...

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 ...

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.

ACU’s molten salt research reactor (MSRR) will be the first deployment of the Natura MSR-1, a 1 megawatt thermal molten salt reactor system. This construction permit is only the second ever for ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

Scientists at the United States Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have announced a breakthrough for the world’s first critical fast-spectrum molten salt reactor. It is the perfect recipe of the ...

SANTA FE, N.M., Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Molten Salt Solutions is pleased to announce the successful close of its Seed funding, securing $3 million from Silicon Valley firms Future Ventures ...

There are several nuclear reactor design technologies that enable wider service areas to different energy end-uses at varying capacity levels. For instance, high-temperature gas reactors operate at ...

The company’s technology could usher in a new era of reactors that are cheaper and safer to operate. Kairos is trying to reinvent nuclear power. Its molten-salt-cooled reactor could generate ...

It will proceed to a continuous process of recycling salt, uranium and thorium, with online separation of fission products and minor actinides. The reactor will work up from about 20% thorium fission ...

The NRC in December 2023 granted its first construction permit for a non-water-cooled reactor in more than 50 years to Kairos Power for the company’s 35-MWth Hermes molten salt “non-power ...

ACU’s molten salt research reactor (MSRR) will be the first deployment of the Natura MSR-1, a 1 megawatt thermal molten salt reactor system. This construction permit is only the second ever for ...