Initially developed in the 1950s, molten salt reactors have benefits in higher efficiencies and lower waste generation. Some designs do not require solid fuel, which eliminates the need for ...

So why would you want your fuel to be fluid rather than a solid pellet ... and many have had prototypes built. So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

This publication documents the results of experimental investigations and computational fluid dynamics studies on thermohydraulics, specifically models and correlations on pressure drop and heat ...

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 ...

The company’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) is a Generation IV nuclear reactor that uses molten salt as a coolant and fuel carrier. Molten salt reactors offer a number of advantages over ...

During the visit, the consortium partners, along with DIFFER, signed a letter of intent to accelerate small modular reactor (SMR) technology development in the Netherlands. A project agreement between ...

Copenhagen Atomics is a Danish molten salt technology company developing mass manufacturable molten-salt reactors. The reactor type invented by Copenhagen Atomics is a thorium molten salt breeder ...

China’s outlined a buildout of nuclear power in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025), released in March 2021. China plans 150 new nuclear reactors over the ensuing 15 years to reach a production goal ...

TerraPower is now also supported by the US Department of Energy, which gave the company an $80 million grant in October 2020 as part of its Advanced Reactor ... and molten-salt energy storage ...