The model, known as a moment tensor potential system, provides information on atoms’ complex interactions. This revolutionary ...

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

The company’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) is a Generation IV nuclear reactor that uses molten salt as a coolant and fuel carrier. Molten salt reactors offer a number of advantages over ...

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) create a number of prototypes, starting in 1954 when the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) reached first ...

Significant advancements in nuclear power are being made right in West Texas with Natura Resources’ molten salt research reactor currently under construction at Abilene Christian University.

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 ...

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 ...

China is looking to make molten salt and thorium reactors as part of the plan. China built a prototype of a thorium molten salt reactor (TMSR) with a capacity of 2 MW began in September 2018 and was ...