Molten salt reactors are nuclear's future, but there's still a lot we don't know. A new breakthrough could help engineers crack the next phase of nuclear energy.

Scientists have developed a new machine learning approach that accurately predicted critical and difficult-to-compute ...

Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University and Natura Resources are moving forward with plans to construct a molten ...

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.

Since chromium is stable as both Cr 3+ and Cr 2+ in most molten salts, "it is essential to understand how Cr 3+ and Cr 2+ react chemically with species produced in the radiation field of a reactor ...

In one hour, a molten salt reactor may be able to crank out 500,000 kilowatts, enough to power 45 U.S. households for an entire year. 5. Drain tank.

A new molten salt reactor design can scale from just 50 Megawatts electric (MWe) to 1,200 MWe, its creators say, while burning up nuclear waste in the process.. ☢️ You like nuclear. So do we ...

A research group shows, using computer simulations, that ions do not always behave as expected. In their research on molten salts, they were able to see that, in some cases, the ions in the salt ...

In one, the molten salt includes salts of uranium and/or plutonium. In these elegant designs , the salt is fuel, moderator, and coolant, and reactor geometry controls power. In the reactor section, ...

We’ve heard of batteries treated with epsom salt or caustic soda reviving ... by the way. On the other hand, you can make a peculiar battery out of molten salt. Posted in chemistry hacks ...

During World War II a scientist named Georg Otto Erb developed the molten salt battery for use in military applications. The war ended before Erb’s batteries found any real use, but British I… ...

One potential solution is known as a molten salt battery, which offers advantages that lithium batteries do not, but have their share of kinks to iron out, too.