One class of these so-called Generation IV or Gen IV power plants is molten salt reactors, which replace enriched uranium or plutonium fuel rods and water moderator/coolant with a mixture of ...

Russia’s AI Leipunsky Institute of Physics & Power (IPPE, part of Rosatom’s Scientific Division) has begun tests to ...

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 ...

fuel rod and successfully fission another 235 U nuclide. France’s fast reactors have been used to both generate electricity just like any other thermal plant, while also providing the plutonium ...

Major utilities in Japan commission facilities in Britain and France to extract plutonium from spent nuclear fuel produced at atomic power plants in this country. It is processed into mixed-oxide ...