They will focus on creating durable materials for reactor components, managing heat extraction and fuel breeding, and ...

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something close to the commonly operated light-water reactors (LWRs) which operate using plain water (H 2 O) as coolant and with sluggish, ...

Molten-salt reactors were first built in the 1950s but haven't been used in the US since the 1970s. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently issued a permit to build a molten-salt nuclear plant.

Naarea, a French developer of a molten salt fast neutron microreactor, announced it has successfully demonstrated an ...

Scientists may have found the answer to our energy needs, and as much as we don’t like it, it has the shape of a nuclear reactor. Nevertheless, it is much safer than everything in operation today and ...

When the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, CA, achieved a fusion energy gain factor of 1.6 on a test of its laser-based fusion reactor, the response was either utter elation or jaded skepticism ...

Terrestrial Energy continues to lead molten salt reactor commercialization with first ruling by NRC on IMSR Plant’s inherent ...

The Integral MSR is also based on the MSR Experiment but has been modified to have a more sealed, passive approach. The design team is based in Canada with international involvement and support. An 80 ...

Samsung Heavy Industries and KAERI have developed a molten-salt SMR-powered LNG carrier concept, earning ABS Approval in ...

The Gayle & Max Dillard Science & Engineering Research Centre (SERC) at the US Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Texas will research and develop molten salt nuclear reactors. The US Nuclear ...

Carolyn Krause concludes her series looking at Stan Thompson, Glenn Seaborg, and Alvin Weinberg with this look at the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment. She enlisted the help of Ronnie Bogard, the ...