Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used advanced experimental methods to measure heat transfer and flow in molten salts, filling a data gap that has constrained MSR reactor design and ...

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 ...

Nuclear power has prevented an estimated 50 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions over the past five decades, but its future is still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A novel nuclear reactor currently under construction at the Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Texas will help generate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research led by scientists at various institutes in China has delivered key insights into the synergistic damage caused by ...

US scientists have collected rare new data on molten reactor salts that could help ...

As next-generation nuclear reactors, known as Gen IV power plants, are developed, it is looking more and more likely that they will be of the molten salt variety. These plants swap out radioactive ...

The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy has spelled out several areas that present challenges to domestic and global development of nuclear power. Chief among those issues is building a ...

Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University and Natura Resources are moving forward with plans to construct a molten salt research reactor, which could be deployed in the state by the end of ...

Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world's first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor - technology that could be deployed as soon as the ...

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear bombers, molten salt reactors (MSRs) are in the spotlight, promising safer, ...