US researchers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have produced the first full-scale batch of enriched fuel salt for the ...

Idaho National Laboratory announced a breakthrough this week that it’s created the world’s first molten salt fuel for nuclear ...

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 ...

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, ...

Idaho National Laboratory has launched full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the world's first test of a molten chloride salt fast reactor - technology that could be deployed as soon as the ...

China has reportedly achieved the world’s first successful thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion in an operational molten salt reactor, potentially reshaping global nuclear energy and shifting ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a construction permit to Abilene Christian University (ACU) to build the Natura MSR-1, marking the first U.S. university research reactor approved in ...

Molten salt reactor developer Thorizon announced it has secured broad industrial and regional support in the Netherlands for the construction of Thorizon Pioneer, a nuclear demonstrator for ...

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 ...