The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than traditional nuclear power plants.
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US scientists harness laser to track molten salt nuclear reactor chemistry at 662°FA team of researchers in the USA has come up with a revolutionary method capable of tracking chemical changes in molten salts ...
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.
After years of effort, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) scientists have created fuel for the world’s first fast-spectrum ...
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US cooks perfect nuclear fuel for world’s first fast-spectrum molten salt reactorScientists at the United States Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have announced a breakthrough for the world’s first critical ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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