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

US-based nuclear start-up Terrestrial Energy has merged with HCM II Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company ...

The North Carolina-based company is developing small modular reactors and expects to net $280 million from the deal. Before ...

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor ... graphite moderator moderating all fast neutrons to thermal neutrons – making it very much akin to an LWR. The advantages of using molten salt ...

that one didn't last long because there wasn't enough uranium fuel available and the molten salt design wasn't any good for making plutonium, so Oppenheimer et al went for a graphite reactor ...

In these liquid fuel designs, the fission products are dissolved into the molten salt, which is able to circulate through the reactor core where it undergoes fission and generates heat. The heat is ...

A team of researchers in the USA has come up with a revolutionary method capable of tracking chemical changes in molten salts ...

Terrestrial Energy Inc. (“Terrestrial Energy” or the “Company”) is developing a small modular nuclear plant (the Terrestrial “IMSR plant”) using ...

Initially developed in the 1950s, molten salt reactors have ... developing core design methods and evaluating economic models. The IAEA fosters an international exchange of information on the advances ...

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’s goal of ...

in part to head off some of the problems earlier molten salt reactors experienced like corrosion. The reactor core includes not only the fuel and graphite modulators that regulate the speed of the ...