The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than ...

Moving toward the goal of having an operational molten salt nuclear reactor in the next decade, Southern Company and the ...

"Molten salt reactors are an emerging technology for safer ... than traditional water-cooled reactor technologies while ...

Uranium Salts There are several different kinds of molten salt reactors ... at higher temperatures than conventional reactors and at atmospheric pressure. This makes them much more efficient ...

Similar to TerraPower, Kairos' reactor operates at near atmospheric pressure using molten fluoride salt instead of water as ...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) recently revealed a new molten salt test loop to support the development of advanced reactors ...

One type of advanced reactor, a molten salt reactor, uses fuels dissolved in molten salt coolants instead of the solid fuels used in traditional nuclear reactors. These reactors feature enhanced ...

The innovative design of the reactor's fuel system offers ... where traditional reactors can't. "With molten salt, it operates at atmospheric pressure, but it goes to much higher temperatures ...

That molten salt liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store large amounts of thermal energy at atmospheric pressure ... "Just installing one of these reactors at that site would provide ...