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 ...

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National ... After the operational time is over, the entire (sealed) unit is left to cool off for a while before it is returned to ...

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 ...

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.

It's a research reactor cooled with molten salt, not water. The fuel is liquid, not solid - two major differences from the hundreds of reactors generating electricity around the world today.

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 ...

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 ...

In 2023, the company built the Science and Engineering Research Center (SERC) at ACU, the first advanced reactor research facility outside a national lab in the US. The company uses liquid-fueled ...

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 ...

Plus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory says that, should power to the pumps fail, molten-salt reactors can rely on passive convection to move salt through the reactor to cool it. Altogether ...

(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 ...