A race is being run by nuclear scientists and ship designers. The prize? “Decarbonization’s” holy grail — believed to be a “small” thorium-fueled, molten-salt rector’s unlimited power to…
19 August 2022
Abilene Christian University (ACU) has applied to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a construction license for a molten salt research…
In China's remote northwest Gansu province, Chinese scientists successfully designed, and built, an experimental thorium-powered molten salt reactor—and they're about to power it up.
Initially, 2024…
The Department of Energy (DOE) selected Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead a $9.25-million collaborative project in nuclear energy research through the Scientific Discovery through…
/EIN News/ -- Visiongain has published a new report entitled Molten Salt Reactors 2022-2032. It includes profiles of Molten Salt Reactors and Forecasts…
A new type of nuclear reactor could help advance efforts to develop space nuclear propulsion and power systems (credit: NASA)
by Ajay KothariMonday, August 1, 2022
Addressing climate change,…
Kairos Power, an advanced nuclear reactor developer, has commissioned a molten salt purification plant (MSPP) that will produce "large quantities" of a high-purity coolant for reactors…
One of the beneficiaries of the run-up to a possible federal election was the nuclear energy industry, especially companies promoting new nuclear reactor designs, so-called small modular…