The National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) has officially unveiled its Molten Salt Thermophysical Examination ...

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Kairos Power have launched ...

ORNL is committed to supporting U.S. energy needs by pursuing strategic research that advances a wide variety of affordable, abundant and competitive nuclear technologies, and strengthens national ...

Up to now, it has only been possible to deduce indirectly why high-temperature batteries lose efficiency and durability while ...

Copenhagen Atomics has successfully completed two years of continuous operation of a molten salt pump and test loop at its facilities in Copenhagen.

As renewable forms of power like wind and solar continue to gain prominence, there will be a need for creative solutions when it comes to storing energy from sources that are intermittent by nature.

Alongside solar and wind power, clean energy companies are also looking into using salt to generate electricity — molten salt, to be precise. SolarReserve is just one of several companies trying to ...

A team from the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) the Netherlands has built the first molten salt reactor powered by thorium in decades. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

Company illustration giving a range of power options for their molten chloride salt fast reactor. If you want to design a car, there are certain constants like four wheels. And for a car, you can draw ...

Experts from 17 countries laid the foundations last week for enhanced international cooperation on a technology that promises to deliver nuclear power with a lower risk of severe accidents, helping to ...

A research group shows, using computer simulations, that ions do not always behave as expected. In their research on molten salts, they were able to see that, in some cases, the ions in the salt ...

An industry veteran is touting a new molten salt reactor as the next big nuclear thing. Thermal molten salt has some growing pains, but Elysium says it has circumvented these. Elysium's first plant ...