Danish innovator Copenhagen Atomics has secured a major financial endorsement from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to ...

Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University and Natura Resources are moving forward with plans to construct a molten ...

A collaboration between multiple universities and private firms earlier this year started integrating molten salt reactor ...

Texas Tech University, Abilene Christian University, and Natura Resources are one step closer to the deployment of molten ...

A diagram of a molten salt research reactor is seen past Rusty Towell, director of the NEXT Lab and professor of engineering and physics at Abilene Christian University, during a tour of the ...

Validated against historical data from the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE), the model reproduces power-to-reactivity frequency responses at both zero power and operating conditions (up to 8 ...

There have been some intriguing stories lately about a different kind of reactor – one cooled by molten salt instead of the more typical water-cooled designs comprising the great majority of the world ...

Molten salt nuclear reactors (MSR) also have unique passive methods of preventing nuclear disasters. Some plants are equipped with what's known as a "freeze plug" in the reactor chamber.

How does a molten salt reactor work? One way the energy production capabilities of a given process can be measured is by using something called its “energy returned on energy invested” (ERoEI ...

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 ...

When the reactor core melts, the high-temperature molten material will relocate to the lower plenum of pressure vessel, forming a corium pool. Moreover, heat will be generated continuously due to ...

Both of these reactor designs also boast safer operation than traditional light-water reactors due to their near atmospheric operating pressure, the chemically inert properties of molten salts, and ...