Development of MSR technology is on the increase in many countries. They work on a variety of reactor concepts, which can trace their origins to the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment embarked on by the ...

So too for molten salt reactors (MSRs), which saw Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) create a number of prototypes, starting in 1954 when the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE) reached first ...

A technology called the molten-salt reactor first went online in 1965 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, but was scrapped in the 1970s because it wasn't good for making nuclear weapons. If ...

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt ...

The US has issued a permit to construct a different kind of nuclear reactor. Known as a molten-salt reactor, it could lead to smaller, easier-to-build nuclear power plants in the future that could ...

The company’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) is a Generation IV nuclear reactor that uses molten salt as a coolant and fuel carrier. Molten salt reactors offer a number of advantages over ...

Not just because it’s the world’s largest container ship at a massive 24,000 TEU, but primarily because of the power source that will power this behemoth: a molten salt reactor of Chinese ...

Research led by scientists at various institutes in China has delivered key insights into the synergistic damage caused by irradiation and corrosion in molten salt reactors (MSR). After studying ...