Steam can be used directly in an industrial process or used to power a turbine and produce electricity ... The company's 10-15 MWh molten salt storage facility will be part of a scalable hybrid ...

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge ... as well as increase the thermal efficiency of electricity generation via steam turbines. When the MSRE was shutdown in 1969 for ...

The platform comprises various independent molten salt plants, the largest of which is a parabolic trough power plant. Except for the steam turbine and generator, it has all the relevant components of ...

China is looking to make molten salt and thorium reactors as part of the plan ... and an experimental supercritical carbon dioxide-based closed-cycle gas turbine to convert the thermal output to 10 MW ...

The permit allows TerraPower to begin building the non-nuclear portions of its plant, including its "energy island," which will hold the plant's turbines and molten-salt energy storage tanks.

The heat is then used to boil water to drive a steam turbine that generates electricity ... where a receiver sits. Molten salt flowing through the receiver is heated to run a generator.

The bundled heat is then used to create steam, which spins a turbine that makes electricity ... a liquid gets heated — usually molten salt because it is particularly good at retaining heat.

It can be found from shallow ground to several miles below the surface, and even farther down to the extremely hot molten ... to tap steam and very hot water that drive turbines linked to ...