INL scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in fuel production for next-gen molten salt reactors, overcoming a key hurdle in making these advanced nuclear power systems viable and bringing ...

The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) at INL will test a new type of nuclear reactor that uses a mixture of molten ...

The brainchild of nuclear physicist Alvin Weinberg, it was the first nuclear reactor to use molten salt as both a coolant for fuel and a component of the fuel itself. It was also the first reactor ...

These include the Danish Seaborg Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR), the Moltex Stable Salt Reactor (SSR) and a number of designs that also use salt as coolant, but with solid fuel such as the ...

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 ...

Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University, and Natura Resources are one step closer to the deployment of molten ...

In certain designs, nuclear fuel, like uranium, is dissolved in the molten salt and flows into the reactor‘s core. However, a significant challenge with molten salt is that other elements can ...

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission now expects to complete its review of TerraPower's construction licence application for ...

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 ...

Kairos is trying to reinvent nuclear power. Its molten-salt-cooled reactor could generate safe, reliable, carbon-free electricity that’s potentially as cheap as power generated from natural gas.

"According to the relevant provisions of the Nuclear Safety Law of the People's Republic of China and the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Safety Supervision and Administration of ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has created its “first-ever” custom glass test cell to observe how gases behave inside a molten salt reactor.