Peer-reviewed research published in the Journal of Nuclear Materials shows that purifying molten fluoride salts before they ...

The National Reactor Innovation Center at INL has launched MSTEC, a $15m testing capability to advance molten salt nuclear fuel research.

The National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) has officially unveiled its Molten Salt Thermophysical Examination ...

Researchers have found that untreated salts can create major challenges for molten salt reactors.

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Kairos Power have launched ...

This is a capability that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world,” said National Reactor Innovation Center Program Manager ...

The first stage of design work on a prototype molten salt reactor has been completed, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has said. (Image: Rosatom) A preliminary design was unveiled in February ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Molten-salt reactors were first built in the 1950s but haven't been used in the US since the 1970s. The US Nuclear Regulatory ...

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 ...

The liquid-fueled molten salt reactors such as the MSRE and the TMSR-LF have distinguishing dynamic features compared with solid-fueled reactors, such that conventional system analysis codes are not ...

The NRC on March 4 authorized a construction permit for TerraPower's Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1—the first commercial ...

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, ...