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 ...

Molten-salt reactors were first built in the 1950s but haven't been used in the US since the 1970s. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently issued a permit to build a molten-salt nuclear ...

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

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.

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 ...

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics - part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - has been given approval by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment to commission an experimental thorium-powered ...

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

SANTA FE, N.M., Dec. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Molten Salt Solutions is pleased to announce the successful close of its Seed funding, securing $3 million from Silicon Valley firms Future Ventures ...