They work on a variety of reactor concepts, which can trace their origins to the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment embarked on by the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in the 1960s. Current research and ...

Can nuclear reactors help power Texas’ future? A project under construction at Abilene Christian University could help answer ...

French microreactor developer Naarea announced the commissioning of its industrial test facility and laboratory, referred to ...

France-based nuclear start-up Naarea (Nuclear Abundant Affordable Resourceful Energy for All) Naarea has opened its ...

"Computationally guided search for melts with particular physicochemical properties might substantially simplify and accelerate the development of next-generation nuclear reactors, since the number of ...

they initiated the application process to gain approval for a molten salt research reactor. Currently, the reactor is still under construction at ACU’s NEXT Lab and will be used for experiments ...

During this process, the company will have to experiment ... type of fast reactor is significantly different from traditional light water SMRs, gas-cooled SMRs, and molten salt SMRs since it ...

The idea is this multi-physical model, together with the experiment data ... now demonstrated that the new material could indeed withstand reactor conditions and resist the molten salt corrosive ...

In 2023, the company built the Science and Engineering Research Center (SERC) at ACU, the first advanced reactor research facility outside a national lab in the US. The company uses liquid-fueled ...

The United States has made history by becoming the first nation to use cutting-edge molten salt reactor technology to produce freshwater from scratch. This ground-breaking invention, which uses ...

The ship will be fitted with Molten Salt Reactors, a kind of nuclear reactor that uses liquid salt as fuel. That would make it 100% emission-free as it sails around for 300 days a year.