The rejuvenated material showed an initial discharge capacity of 196 milliamp hours per gram and retained 76 percent of that ...

Zirconium’s exceptional properties, including its low neutron absorption and high resistance to corrosion, have positioned it as a critical material in nuclear, aerospace, and industrial applications.

Denmark's Hyme Energy wants to save decommissioned fossil-fuel heat and power plants by repurposing them as super-cheap renewable energy storage and release facilities, using cutting-edge molten salt ...

Southern Company and TerraPower have completed construction and installation of a new test facility at TerraPower's laboratory in Everett, Washington. The Integrated Effects Test will be used in the ...

A novel nuclear reactor currently under construction at the Abilene Christian University (ACU) in Texas will help generate carbon-free energy while also desalinating water, solving two problems at ...

Company illustration giving a range of power options for their molten chloride salt fast reactor. If you want to design a car, there are certain constants like four wheels. And for a car, you can draw ...

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. In the event ...

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 ...

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

The electrochemical behaviour in molten salts encompasses a broad spectrum of research that bridges fundamental science and industrial applications. Molten salts, due to their high ionic conductivity ...

What if the next big thing in nuclear energy was a dusty old idea from the Cold War era? Once considered to power nuclear bombers, molten salt reactors (MSRs) are in the spotlight, promising safer, ...