They work on a variety of reactor concepts, which can trace their origins to the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment embarked on by the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in the 1960s. Current research and ...

In Mid-2024, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit yesterday to Abilene Christian University, giving ...

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So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) create a number of prototypes, starting in 1954 when the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) reached first ...

Although to most the term ‘fission reactor’ brings to mind something close to the commonly operated light-water reactors (LWRs) which operate using plain water (H 2 O) as coolant and with ...

In 2021, Noord-Brabant launched the innovation coalition 'Nuclear Energy for the Future' with the goal of leveraging the manufacturing industry and research institutes in the province to accelerate ...

The Test Facility for Thermal Energy Storage in Molten Salt (TESIS) at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics in ...

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 ...

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt ...

A consortium of Dutch tech companies DEMCON, Thorizon, and VDL Group have forged a project agreement to develop molten salt reactors.

Research led by scientists at various institutes in China has delivered key insights into the synergistic damage caused by irradiation and corrosion in molten salt reactors (MSR). After studying ...