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

The Deep Fission reactor is based on the time-tested (67 years) traditional technology of the pressurized water reactor (PWR), the most common type of nuclear reactor around the world. even the same ...

Is nuclear power or renewable energy the key to a zero-carbon future? Explore costs, risks, and global trends shaping the ...

Terrapower’s Natrium technology features a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor using high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel, with a molten salt-based energy storage ... “The unique Natrium design ...

During his short time in Oak Ridge, Wigner charted the lab’s peacetime trajectory by establishing a nuclear training school and overseeing the design of a high ... abandoned in 1961, the molten salt ...

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 ...

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 ...