If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors ...

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 ...

A team of researchers in the USA has come up with a revolutionary method capable of tracking chemical changes in molten salts ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that can track chemical changes in molten salt in real ...

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 ...

A National Geographic emerging explorer with a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, she wants to resurrect the molten-salt reactor, a 1960s-era design that she hopes will revive nuclear energy as a ...

After years of effort, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) scientists have created fuel for the world’s first fast-spectrum molten salt reactor. The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) will test ...

Nuclear technology firm Terrestrial Energy has quietly been making progress on its Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) technology, laying the crucial groundwork for a commercial fleet by the early ...