The fuel isn't quite everlasting, but it is long-lasting and abundant — and it doesn't produce lung-troubling air pollution.

The first thorium molten salt reactor has officially entered the construction phase. Unlike conventional reactors, it uses ...

Bill Phillips, technical lead for salt synthesis, says, "It’s a major milestone for American innovation and a clear signal of ...

The OTA provides a framework for the DOE to review and authorize the design and operation of the TETRA reactor. This system ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Dallas-based battery technology provider, Solidion Technology Inc., a grant to scale up the production of a key material for advanced molten salt nuclear ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

A North Carolina-headquartered developer of small modular nuclear power plants announced it has an agreement with the U.S.

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 ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientific glassblower Carlos Rodriguez Flores uses a blowtorch to fabricate a glass test cell for a molten salt visualization experiment (Credit: ORNL) Oak Ridge ...

Kairos Power has successfully completed 1,000 hours of pumped salt operations with its non-nuclear Engineering Testing Unit (ETU) at the company’s testing and manufacturing facility in Albuquerque, ...

Terrestrial Energy Inc and Oklo Inc have executed agreements with the US Department of Energy for a pilot reactor that will ...

Natura Resources LLC (Natura), a leading developer of advanced molten-salt nuclear reactors (MSR), today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has selected the company to receive the coolant ...