The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

Moving toward the goal of having an operational molten salt nuclear reactor in the next decade, Southern Company and the ...

General diagram. (Source: ORNL ... and many have had prototypes built. So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) create a number of prototypes ...

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 ...

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 ...

These next-generation reactors, particularly molten salt reactors (MSRs), offer the potential for safer, more flexible energy ...

Using a new process, a team has developed a new way of processing fuel efficiently for cutting-edge molten salt reactors. One of the big pushes in the effort to spark a 21st century renaissance in ...

High temperatures and ionizing radiation create extremely corrosive environments inside a nuclear reactor. To design ...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently revealed a new molten salt test loop to support the development of advanced reactors ...

One type of advanced reactor, a molten salt reactor, uses fuels dissolved in molten salt coolants instead of the solid fuels used in traditional nuclear reactors. These reactors feature enhanced ...