Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University and Natura Resources are moving forward with plans to construct a molten ...

Danish innovator Copenhagen Atomics has secured a major financial endorsement from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to ...

The Natura Resources MSR-1, a liquid-fueled molten salt reactor was licensed last year by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...

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Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University, and Natura Resources are one step closer to the deployment of molten ...

Molten salt reactors were first conceived in the 1960s by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who came up with the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment.

You should look up thorium molten salt reactors. Thorium is a readily available fuel and doesn’t have all the issues of uranium. Look up Dr. Kirk Sorensen, a NASA engineer that developed the ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

History of molten salt reactors. During the early stages of the Cold War, the US Air Force was trying to build a nuclear-powered bomber. While this project eventually went nowhere (the Air Force was ...

Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR) also have unique passive methods of preventing nuclear disasters. Some plants are equipped with what's known as a "freeze plug" in the reactor chamber.

In the proverbial shadow of the Naughton Power Plant, a station in Kemmerer, Wyoming, that will stop burning coal at the end ...

Excitement is building as TerraPower, led by CEO Chris Levesque, advances the construction of its Natrium Nuclear Power Plant ...