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 ...

Initially developed in the 1950s, molten salt reactors have benefits in higher efficiencies and lower waste generation. Some designs do not require solid fuel, which eliminates the need for ...

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 ...

salt-cooled reactor based on the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) developed and tested at ORNL in the late 1960s. It has been argued that smaller salt-cooled reactors could be less costly to ...

Can nuclear reactors help power Texas’ future? A project under construction at Abilene Christian University could help answer ...

The ship will be fitted with Molten Salt Reactors, a kind of nuclear reactor that uses liquid salt as fuel. That would make it 100% emission-free as it sails around for 300 days a year.

In Mid-2024, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a construction permit yesterday to Abilene Christian University, giving ACU and its partners the go-ahead to build the Molten Salt Research ...

In 2023, the company built the Science and Engineering Research Center (SERC) at ACU, the first advanced reactor research facility outside a national lab in the US. The company uses liquid-fueled ...

Significant advancements in nuclear power are being made right in West Texas with Natura Resources’ molten salt research reactor currently under construction at Abilene Christian University.

A top-down view of an experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor from the 1960s. (Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy ... In June 2023, China issued an operating permit for ...