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 ...

“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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record. The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat à l'énergie ...