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 ...
The United States has made history by becoming the first nation to use cutting-edge molten salt reactor technology to produce freshwater from scratch. This ground-breaking invention, which uses ...
In 2023, the company built the Science and Engineering Research Center (SERC) at ACU, the first advanced reactor research facility outside a national lab in the US. The company uses liquid-fueled ...
A new 1 megawatt thermal nuclear molten salt reactor will be built in 2026 and will be lowered into a cement encased trench in a new building in Texas. Rusty Towell of Nature Energy showed the new ...
TerraPower is now also supported by the US Department of Energy, which gave the company an $80 million grant in October 2020 as part of its Advanced Reactor ... and molten-salt energy storage ...
Significant advancements in nuclear power are being made right in West Texas with Natura Resources’ molten salt research reactor currently under construction at Abilene Christian University.
But the Natrium reactor is different. Combining a sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten salt energy storage, this innovative technology addresses many of the concerns associated with traditional ...