Moving toward the goal of having an operational molten salt nuclear reactor in the next decade, Southern Company and the ...

The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

High temperatures and ionizing radiation create extremely corrosive environments inside a nuclear reactor. To design ...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently revealed a new molten salt test loop to support the development of advanced reactors ...

The Molten Salt Flow Loop Test Bed is meant to allow for continuous, real-time monitoring and analysis that makes molten salt research more efficient.

INL scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in fuel production for next-gen molten salt reactors, overcoming a key hurdle in making these advanced nuclear power systems viable and bringing ...

To meet energy demands and reestablish the nation's energy dominance, U.S. companies are developing several types of advanced reactors. One type of advanced reactor, a molten salt reactor, uses ...

A team of researchers in the USA has come up with a revolutionary method capable of tracking chemical changes in molten salts – ionically bonded chemicals with high melting ranges – in real time. This ...

Texas A&M RELLIS Texas A&M University recently selected Terrestrial Energy to partner on the construction of a commercial IMSR plant at the Texas A&M RELLIS campus, contributing to the university ...