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 ...

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 ...

Bøe emphasized that the Liberty program could unlock a market estimated at $2.6 trillion focused on floating power solutions, ...

ACU Molten Salt Reactor used to create base elements for cancer treatment ...

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.

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 ...

Other reactor systems such as gas-cooled or molten salt reactors are designed to have more built-in safety features, reducing the need for external intervention. If the liquid fuel in a molten ...

The firm is currently building a 100-MW molten salt reactor, Thorizon One, which it hopes to get running in a pilot plant by the mid-2030s. It expects the first prototype to be fuelled by a mix of ...

India and France on Wednesday expressed an intent to jointly develop modern nuclear reactors, emphasising that nuclear power was crucial for energy security and transition to a low-carbon economy.

Three of the plant’s six reactors were operating when a tsunami caused by a massive earthquake hit on March 11, 2011, disabling their cooling systems and sending them into meltdown. Ever since ...

Texas A&M University is offering up land to nuclear reactor companies. Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp announced last week that he has offered land near the university's RELLIS campus in Bryan ...