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

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

"We've been doing experiments with different food names to help communicate the processes." Scientists harness unexpected ...

To meet energy demands and reestablish the nation's energy dominance, U.S. companies are developing several types of advanced ...

These next-generation reactors, particularly molten salt reactors (MSRs), offer the potential for safer, more flexible energy ...

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

Uranium Salts There are several different kinds ... This is the problem that INL's Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) is dealing with. Since 2020, the technical team under Bill Phillips ...

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.

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

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory recently performed experiments ... type of reactor cooled by molten salts.

Scientists at the INL have found a new recipe for energy through their Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE ... uranium and 2/3rds molten chloride salt, different that the uranium fuel ...

It allows researchers to see how these salts behave in a flowing environment. INL is part of a team developing the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment, which will demonstrate the first operational ...