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 ...

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

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 ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Molten Salt Reactor Experiment was designed to assess the viability of liquid fuel reactor technologies for use in commercial power generation. It operated from ...

“Every reactor technology has its pluses and minuses,” said Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research based outside Washington, D.C. He said the experiment ...

A technology called the molten-salt reactor first went online in 1965 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but was scrapped in the 1970s because it wasn't good for making nuclear weapons. If ...

A National Geographic emerging explorer with a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, she wants to resurrect the molten-salt reactor, a 1960s-era design that she hopes will revive nuclear energy as a ...

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 ...

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

In addition to these reactor designs, Natrium also adds an on-site energy storage in the form of molten salt that can bump up the reactor’s electrical output from 345 MWe to 500 MWe for about 5. ...