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

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

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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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...